“Brexit votes: What happens next?”

Mar 31, 2019 | Brexit

There are five, often six in our household. For us, it’s TV on which it’s hard to find consensus. We older members are used to binary choices, the old BBC/ITV, on/off divide; but there are, of course many others now available. Most evenings we find a couple in favour of a celebrities-cooking- or fat-people-with-tatts-dating-type programmes, others wanting something Scandi, or even French, one or two favouring a WTO-rules, let’s-see-what-we-can-find evening. There’s only one way forward. We’re holding a series of indicative votes on Monday.

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