A new government and a new majority means a new approach to Brexit is required. To support members, the CBI has five thoughts about how 2020 may differ from 2019, and how you can prepare.
1) Focus less on backbench MPs to have impact on Brexit this year
In the last parliament, backbench MPs successfully prevented no deal on three separate occasions and secured a high level of transparency on government planning on Brexit. Companies – and the CBI – spent a lot of time educating and informing MPs to achieve this.
A government majority of 80 and the retirement, resignation and replacement of dozens of remain Conservative MPs means marginal voters and parliamentary procedural shenanigans are a thing of the past. The government will have multiple Brexit votes in January, all of which will pass few, if any amendments. Elected on non-traditional votes to deliver Brexit, the last thing any of the 107 new Tory MPs will do is burn their pinch of newbie political capital doing anything that might even be perceived as holding up the process of leaving the EU.
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