It's a no deal Brexit which threatens the Good Friday Agreement! Pelosi is simply saying that Congress won't allow a trade deal to help facilitate that.

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According to the Lib Dems Harriet Harmon and Ken Clarke are ready to lead an emergency government.

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I don't believe a Unity government led by them will happen.

Leaving aside the matter of would they get the votes, if Clarke was to go into coalition with Labour and others this would effectively destroy the Tory party. I am not sure he is prepared to do that, vote against a no deal certainly, destroy his own party?

In 1939 faced with a world war Clement Attlee took the statesmen's decision to join with the Tories. This was the official policy of Labour and he took his party with him into government. This was not the action of a group of rebels.

The Tory members have just voted for a leader who made it clear he would leave without a deal if he had to. The Remain candidates sank without trace. Clarke could go into coalition but he and the other rebels would be sacked from the Tory party as there is no mandate or majority in the Tory party for this action.

So does Clarke want to be remembered as the man who split the Tory party? Tory members are a pretty loyal bunch but I don't think they would forgive this and the rebels would be deselected by their local party and or voted out by the electorate.

If Corbyn can win a vote of no confidince I can see some Tory MP's abstaining if he tried to form a coalition government and the odd one may join him. However I think the vast majority of Tory MP's will back Boris any coalition will not include a large number of Tories.

One more point

It's the Irish Government that is threatening the Good Friday Agreement ! We have said we will not put a hard border, we have given them ways to get round having a hard border, but the Irish have always enjoyed being difficult - they seem to have nothing better to do - and the Pelosi threat is a great way to latch on to the American-Irish voters.

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That there are MPs, like Ken Clarke, with sufficient principles to put the country's interests before either their own or their Party's is something we should all welcome. That is, after all, their duty and what we pay them to do.

Clarke though would not "destroy the Tory Party". The seeds for that when it lurched to the right. Unless and until it once again moves to the centre ground is is destined to become a fringe party, sometimes in coalition and sometimes not.

Exactly how this will play out is as unclear to me as to everyone else but I suspect some very careful calculations will be made to ensure that Parliament control what happens and not Bogus Johnson, a PM chosen not by us but a small group of activists from the Tory shires. That they voted him in on a platform of a "no-deal" Brexit is no reason at all why our Parliament should accept it and I am sure they won't.

Whether it's Corbyn as a temporary PM, with no mandate to do anything except call an election, or another compromise choice, remains to be seen but that seems the most likely outcome.

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"lurched to the right"

It's been lurching left for decades

There are not many socially conservatives left in the party. Boris certainly isn't.

What has it got to do with her anyway? She should concentrate on her own country's efforts to start a conflict with Iran rather than poking her snout into other country's affairs