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NEJRA CEHIC, BLOOMBERG HOST: Joining me on the Green is Christopher Jackson. He's the author of "Theresa May: Power, Chaos and Chance; A Political History of Modern Britain."
Welcome, Chris. Thanks for joining us --
CHRISTOPHER JACKSON, AUTHOR OF "THERESA MAY: POWER, CHAOS AND CHANCE; A POLITICAL HISTORY OF MODERN BRITAIN": Thank you very much.
CEHIC: -- and braving the cold with us here.
So a lot of questions over what happens next. Did Theresa May make the right decision, to actually delay this vote, given that it doesn't look like the parliamentary math is going to change between now and March 29th?
JACKSON: Well, I think only time will tell on that. I think that clearly, she has avoided what would have been a calamitous defeat. And so she lives to fight another day.
I think this is in -- very much in keeping with this prime minister. She is someone who -- counterintuitively, you might say -- keeps getting up in the morning when -- when others might not.
I think that she has now a very difficult summit on -- on Thursday, and it's very hard to see what kind of concessions, meaningful concessions, that she could win now.
CEHIC: And back here at home, we're going to have sort of an emergency debate by lawmakers, today in parliament around what's happened. What would happen if this vote didn't occur at all? Is there any chance of that taking place?
I was told by a minister (ph) earlier, that that would be a constitutional crisis.
JACKSON: Well, I think it would be a constitutional crisis. And I think that the real issue is that I think...