'Brexit' Review: How Soon Is Now

HBO's controversial drama Brexit arrives this weekend, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the man who changed history.

Dominic Cummings: We live in a multiverse of different branches of history... and in a different branch of history I was never here. Some of you voted differently, and this never happened. But I was, and it did. Everyone knows who won. But not everyone knows how.

For those who haven't been paying attention to overseas political news, Theresa May, the current Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative "Tory" Party was handed a resounding defeat in Parliament this week, when her Brexit deal with the European Union was rejected 432 votes to 202. But the expected No-Confidence vote in her government that was assumed to follow - causing the party to collapse and triggering a round of new elections - did not come to pass. Instead, her government won the vote of confidence 325 votes to 306. Having herself already survived a vote of No-Confidence in her party just over a month ago, the status of Brexit now remains in a deadlock. May cannot get a package together that the government will accept, but this self-same government is unable to move on from the status quo.

Part of the issue is that there is no substantial alternative. The Labour Party, which has always been an uneasy alliance of the working classes and high minded liberals, finds itself cracked along these lines, with the former mostly Leave and the latter mainly Remain. And as the Article 50 March deadline looms just weeks away, the situation over the United Kingdom's decision in 2015 to put this vote into action in the first place is ready to explode.