MPs to get another say on Brexit deal on Friday - but will it be a meaningful vote?

The Government intends to stage a third vote on its EU Withdrawal Agreement (WA) on Friday, Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom has told MPs.

She added that the Commons would sit from 9.30am to 2.30pm and said it was the only way the UK can get its article 50 extension approved.

The announcement came as Boris Johnson claimed Theresa May’s Brexit deal was ‘dead’ – despite backing it just 24 hours earlier – and as a potential Conservative party leadership election appeared likely.

However, it appears it will not be the widely anticipated ‘MV3’ vote – the third on Mrs May’s Brexit deal, but instead a watered-down vote on only one part of the deal.

Mrs Leadsom added that the government intends to comply with the Speaker John Bercow’s ruling about MPs not voting on the same motion twice.

Rumours at Westminster suggest that the Speaker has indicated to officials that the vote can come back to the Commons.

He previously stopped a third vote after it was defeated for a second time, claiming parliamentary procedure meant it could not be brought back to the house and voted on in the same form.

‘Subject to the House approving the motion on the order paper in the name of the prime minister this evening the business for tomorrow will be Friday March 29, debate on a motion relating to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU,’ Mrs Leadsom told the floor of the House.

The vote is seen as a crucial way of unblocking the parliamentary paralysis over Brexit and resolving the issue of when Britain leaves the European Union.

However, almost immediately as it was announced, questions were being asked about what form the vote would take – and if it did constitute a third meaningful vote.

With scenes verging on farcical, there was speculation that the government might hold a vote only on the Withdrawal Agreement, and not the political declaration as well.

The WA is the legally-binding treaty covering the backstop, the £39bn payment to the EU as well as citizens’ rights.

The political declaration covers future trade deals between London and Brussels.

But no sooner had Mrs Leadsom announced it to the House, then MPs queried if the ‘meaningful vote’ three would actually be meaningless.

Chris Bryant, for Labour, said the WA and political declaration must be debated together, else it would be ‘a complete waste of time’.

The SNP’s Neil Gray asked if would be MV3, and if not what was the point?

Mrs Leadsom said the motion had not been finalised.