Farage victory would tip the balance

A Brexit Party win may concentrate minds in parliament and break the stalemate. Emily Hohler reports.

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May will put her agreement before parliament again in June
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MPs will vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit compromise in the first week of June, regardless of whether the government and Labour have reached an agreement by then, says the BBC. Downing Street says a vote on the Withdrawal Agreement is "imperative" if it is to be on the statute book before the Commons' summer recess starts in late July. If the deal is defeated and Labour says it will vote it down without a cross-party agreement the UK is set for a no-deal exit or the revocation of 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.