Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“The third rejection of Mrs Deal’s deal of betrayal is welcome. A Prime Minister with any shred of self respect remaining would now face reality, but Mrs May is so deaf to reason I doubt if she will. Well done to those Brexiteers who refused to be bludgeoned.
“Instead of further national humiliation, which comes from more grovelling to Brussels and awaiting their next decision on our future, the Government should proceed without deflection to conclude preparations for leaving on World Trade terms on 12 April. That’s what we should have done today, but the ongoing attempts to thwart Brexit only brought us to another impasse.
“It remains correct that no deal is better than a bad deal, which Mrs May’s concoction of vassalage most certainly is. 17.4 million voted to leave, not to be trampled over by a Remain Government and Parliament.”