With less than two weeks to go until the second deadline is reached for Britain to leave the EU it looks as if the government is no nearer to a plan that is likely to get the backing of MPs.

On April 1st, four different options were put forward. Jesse Norman, MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, voted against all the proposals.

The options were Ken Clarke’s proposal seeking a UK-wide customs union with the EU (273 votes for, 276 against), Nick Bole’s proposal to remain in the European single market and seek a temporary customs union (261 votes for, 282 against), holding a public vote to confirm any withdrawal agreement agreed by Parliament was put forward by Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson (280 votes for, 292 against) and Joanna Cherry’s proposal for MPs to have the power to block leaving with no-deal by cancelling Brexit if EU won’t grant a further extension beyond April 12th (191 votes for, 292 against).

Bill Wiggin, MP for North Herefordshire also voted against Ken Clark’s proposal but did not vote in the other three.

Mark Harper, MP for the Forest of Dean, also voted against all the proposals.

None of the proposals earned a majority in the second round of so-called “indicative votes” to test Parliamentary support.

The customs union proposal put forward by Ken Clarke came closest to securing a majority, failing by just three votes. Last Wednesday it lost by six votes.See this week’s paper for more stories like this, available in shops and as a Digital Edition now.