Brexit debate goes into extra-time

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has complicated the debate further. Emily Hohler reports.

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Corbyn: toying with confidence votes
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Jeremy Corbyn tabled a no-confidence vote in Theresa May's performance as prime minister on Monday in protest at her decision to postpone the so-called "meaningful vote" on her Brexit deal until the week commencing 14 January, says Lizzy Buchan in The Independent. May called his bluff by rejecting his demand and challenging him to call a vote of no confidence in her government as a whole instead, say Oliver Wright and Francis Elliott in The Times. That could trigger a general election. If Labour lost it, however, Corbyn would face huge pressure from his own Remain-supporting backbenchers to back a second referendum.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.