house on this important issue. the government will therefore include in the withdrawal agreement bill at introduction a requirement to vote on whether to hold a 2nd referendum and this must take place before the withdrawal agreement can be ratified so as to resume a there for now i'm joined by european affairs blogger and he brags activist john wirth john you've been covering the story for so long this story just doesn't go away teresa mayes back at it again trying to get a deal approved for a 4th time she's now telling. lawmakers in the u.k. that if they will back her a deal she'll give them a chance to put it to another referendum we think that is going to work they're going to go for they're not really keen on that idea at the moment members of parliament the reactions to theresa may speech yesterday were very negative they see that to a certain extent as a trap in the you'd have to have the government backing such a 2nd vote and to resume a hasn't committed conservative party to doing that at all so this hasn't won over