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Originally Posted by Chris
The u-turn has been too quick and too comprehensive for senior cabinet members to have been fully up to speed and supportive of this. Don’t get me wrong, if their eyes were off the ball they shoulder their share of the blame, but I don’t think this can have been initiated, planned and signed off at the top. It has been put together lower down the food chain and signed off by ministers who have had their minds on other things.
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It required a Parliamentary vote, Boris Johnson to have lines prepared at PMQs and Rees-Mogg to lead the debate on the vote in the Commons. It's not a particularly complicated vote either. How could they not have been aware of what they were doing?
If this were a small part of a bill they overlooked or a Government department implementing something off somewhere else then you can understand how they might have missed it. But this required those very ministers to argue in favour of the vote in the commons and march through the lobby?