Prime Minister Theresa May appeared today to confirm that the backstop proposal for the Irish border would not be removed from her Brexit deal. She told an audience in Belfast that she would instead seek changes to the controversial backstop plan she had negotiated with the EU as part of the withdrawal deal. The Prime […]
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MPs have been urged by the government to throw their support behind Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal in Tuesday’s vote in the Commons. May’s withdrawal agreement with the EU is expected to be heavily defeated, with around 100 Tory MPs joining Labour, the DUP and SNP to vote it down. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn […]
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The House of Commons will get the chance to vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal deal in the week commencing January 14. Confirming the news in Parliament today, Mrs May told MPs she had won ‘fresh assurances’ from the EU over the Irish border backstop and urged them to pass the deal. The […]
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Prime Minister Theresa May said today that she will contest an imminent vote of no confidence in her leadership ‘with everything I have got.’ She issued a defiant message to Tory rebels outside 10 Downing Street after it was confirmed that the 48 letters necessary to trigger a vote had been received. This is the […]
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