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Leading Brexiters have been accused of exaggerating the popularity of a no-deal Brexit among voters. In recent TV interviews, John Redwood and Andrew Bridgen both said “most of the public” now want to leave the EU with no withdrawal agreement in place. Jacob Rees-Mogg has also tweeted this graphic, which draws on two recent opinion…
A senior Conservative minister has warned Theresa May that if Parliament wants to support a ‘softer’ Brexit – she can’t afford to ignore it.
Gary Gibbon
At his end of summit press conference in Brussels, France’s President Macron has been explaining why he didn’t want an “crisis summit next week” as it could land the EU with “responsibility” for a No Deal Brexit and the EU27 would’ve lost the “blame game”.
Gary Gibbon
The Government has revised plans for a vote next Thursday and is now contemplating holding it earlier in the week but “everything is fluid,” one source said. Plans are being made for an emergency sitting on Friday 29th March to respond to whatever the EU Council says on Thursday 28th about what is on offer…
Gary Gibbon
The Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar kindly announced it a short while ago in Dublin.
Gary Gibbon
The ERG are recently out of a meeting in Whitehall with officials and the Brexit Secretary claiming it was all very constructive.
Theresa May has told a meeting of Conservative backbenchers that they should instruct the government to renegotiate the Northern Ireland backstop when they vote on amendments to her Brexit deal again tomorrow.
Two weeks after the thumping Commons defeat for the Brexit divorce deal Theresa May has unveiled her Plan B. In a meeting with Tory MPs she asked them to back an amendment (the Brady amendment) which she hopes gets voted on tomorrow and which calls for “alternative arrangements” to the Northern Ireland backstop to be…
The majority of Labour voters do not consider themselves working class.
Gary Gibbon
Some Cabinet ministers say this morning’s gathering was a more low-key affair than last week’s. One around the table said “it was like the steam had gone out of it.” Chris Grayling spoke up, challenging the idea that Theresa May’s deal could ever get through the Commons. But others, one source said, were rather low-key. The Chief…
Gary Gibbon
Cabinet saw “sharp” exchanges on Brexit, according to one who was around the table. Ministers who really don’t like the emerging outline of a deal made forceful arguments against it. They included born again Brexiteers, Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid. But the pithiest attack sounds like it came from the Attorney General Geoffrey Cox. In what…
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May says there’s only 5% of the deal still to go. But that 5% is sorting out the Northern Ireland border. And she has to sort it out as patience amongst her backbenchers and cabinet is fraying.
Gary Gibbon
A special Downing Street meeting on Brexit for Cabinet Ministers tomorrow. As talks reach a crucial phase, what does Theresa May want to tell them?
Eighty Conservative MPs will vote against the Chequers plan, according to the former Brexit minister Steve Baker. His European Research Group of Conservative MPs says it will set out some alternative plans for Brexit, although not a full manifesto that some had talked about. There are also Tory MPs on the other side of the Brexit argument who are…
Gary Gibbon
As parliament returns today, Theresa May has united the warring wings of her party over Brexit. Tory MPs from the pro-Remain and pro-Brexit wings of the party now seem agreed that the Chequers plan the prime minister unveiled in July is dead.