This Brexit show will run and run

Postponing Article 50 is now back on the list of possibilities. Emily Hohler reports.

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May is under intense pressure to yield
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Britain's "bumpy journey" out of the EU took a "major turn on Tuesday", as Theresa May handed MPs the power to "slam on the brakes", says The New York Times. In a series of "commitments", May said MPs will vote in quick succession between her renegotiated deal (which she will put to another "meaningful" vote by 12 March), a no-deal Brexit, or asking Brussels for an extension to Article 50.

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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.