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No Majority for Brexit Alternatives

March 27, 2019 at 5:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Britain’s House of Commons failed to get a majority on any of the eight alternatives to Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, the BBC reports.

Of course, there’s no majority for May’s deal either.

The BBC and The Guardian have good live blogs.

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