There are 639 voting MPs. Boris Johnson needs 320 -- a simple majority -- to get his Brexit deal through. Can he do it? RAGreeneCNN takes a hard look at the numbers:
Chalk up a big victory for Boris Johnson in Brussels: the UK Prime Minister got the European Union to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement that the EU said it would never renegotiate.
But, as his predecessor Theresa May proved, getting a deal between the UK and the EU isn't the hard part -- getting the British Parliament to back it is. So can Johnson pull another rabbit out of his hat?Let's look at the numbersThere are 650 members of Parliament, but seven of them belong to the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party. On principle, they never take their seats.The Speaker of the Commons, John Bercow , and his three deputies also don't vote.
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