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BREXIT LATEST: Cabinet trouble gets worse for May... Andrea Leadsom is convening a working group of five Cabinet Brexiteers to re-write the Brexit deal, sources say. Gove, Fox, Mordaunt, Grayling, and Leadsom... They're meeting through next week
Coordinated action from these five Brexiteers suggests they want to change the draft Brexit agreement so that they can stay in government and vote for it when the time comes. But if they can't....
Another mass Cabinet walk out seems likely in the run up to the Meaningful Vote.
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Tim Ross
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The army could be sent to back up security at the Irish border if negotiators screw up Brexit, Irish PM Leo Varadkar just told @BloombergTV
Leo Varadkar tells @flacqua and @tomkeene what a hard border means: "It would involve customs posts. It would involve people in uniform and it may involve the need, for example, for cameras, physical infrastructure, possibly a police presence, or an army presence to back it up."
More from Varadkar: "The problem with that in the context of Irish politics and history is those things become targets - and we've already had a certain degree of violence in the last few weeks. I just don't want to see that come back."
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Graham Brady hasn’t requested a meeting with Theresa May tomorrow, despite reports that he’s asking to see her to tell her she will face a confidence vote, a source tells us.
All Sir Graham Brady himself is saying tonight is this: “If she wanted to see me, I would of course make myself available.”
None of this means that he won’t ask to see her tomorrow. Or that the 48 letters are not in.
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Poor Theresa May now has to follow that
And she does
Walking on stage to “Dancing Queen” — and reprising her dance moves from her trip to Africa.
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Stewart Wood
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This "Alternative Arrangements Working Group" looks suspiciously like a selected bunch of backbench Conservative MPs being provided with support by civil servants. Which of course is not allowed.

I'm sure no.10 will clarify to remove suspicion. #Brexit

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Here are some of the ways in which the UK just doesn’t get the EU.

1/6
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#Brexit thread:

So. Tomorrow the House of Commons will vote on a series of possible amendments to Theresa May's 'Plan B' - or rather the 'plan of action to achieve a Plan B' - which itself officially reads as follows:
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Brexit deal dead.
After this crushing defeat of May's Brexit deal, a loss by 230 votes, she will face a confidence vote brought by Corbyn & Labour. She's pretty sure she will survive that vote but there is no clear path forward. 2nd referendum? Election? #Brexit
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#Brexit #thread
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