Poll and Betting Mistakes Mean Britain’s EU Referendum Is No Safe Bet
British politics is in a new place – no one is quite sure what’s going to happen next.
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In Britain’s long history of parliamentary rebellions, David Cameron’s defeat by his own side on Monday night wasn’t one of the biggest. It wasn’t even one of the biggest in the shorter history of rebellions against Cameron.
Burdened with a Conservative Party that’s riven over U.K. membership in the European Union, Cameron failed to secure enough votes to enact rules related to the coming referendum on staying in the bloc. The blow was delivered by 37 members of his own party, voting with the opposition Labour Party.