May faces latest Commons test as MPs bid to shape Brexit

May faces latest Commons test as MPs bid to shape Brexit BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Theresa May faces a crucial day in the Commons that could carve the shape of Brexit, with fewer than 60 days remaining until the UK is due to leave the EU. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/may-faces-latest-commons-test-as-mps-bid-to-shape-brexit-37759734.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/article37759731.ece/65c8f/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_1baeaf10-524a-4ce1-afa1-56be3f4fe8f3_1 Email Theresa May faces a crucial day in the Commons that could carve the shape of Brexit, with fewer than 60 days remaining until the UK is due to leave the EU. Amid an ongoing revolt among backbenchers and her DUP allies, the Prime Minister has swung behind a motion amendment that would allow her to go back to Brussels and seek changes to the Irish border backstop. She will whip MPs to support the amendment tabled by 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady, which states that Parliament would be willing to support the Withdrawal Agreement reached with the EU if “alternative arrangements” were found to avoid a hard border. The dramatic move is far from guaranteed to deliver a majority for the plan after it failed to win the support of the influential European Research Group (ERG) of Conservative Eurosceptics, who have not ruled out voting against it. There is also the small matter… Read full this story

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