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British parliament speaker John Bercow gave his go-ahead for a vote by MPs on Friday on the Brexit divorce deal, which parliament has already overwhelmingly rejected twice. “The motion is new, substantially different,” said House of Commons Speaker Bercow, who had blocked a previous vote by invoking a 17th-century statute stopping MPs from voting the same text multiple times. The …

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