BRITAIN’S PM BEGINS BID TO WOO MPS TO BACK HER DEAL

After Brussels gives May a 2-week extension

Theresa May is holedup in Downing Street today plotting how to save her Brexit deal as it was revealed she will only call a third vote if it has a ‘realistic prospect of success’ after EU leaders humiliated her in Brussels last night.

The Prime Minister has summoned cabinet ministers to No 10 as Tory Brexiteers said their ‘isolated’ leader should ‘name a date’ for her resignation after failing to deliver Brexit for March 29. Later she will head to Chequers and is expected to focus on wooing the DUP, Tory remainers and Labour rebels after Conservative Brexiteers deserted her.

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman refused to say when she will bring her deal back to the Commons.

But the spokesman said the EU Council was clear that the extension to May 22 was contingent on winning a vote ‘next week’.

There are claims that Mrs May could even promise MPS a series of free indicative votes on major issues including on her Brexit deal, revoking Article 50, a second referendum, staying in the customs union or No Deal, according to Sky News.

The ERG’S deputy chairman Steve Baker said today: ‘National humiliation is imminent through these indicative votes. The wrong Conservatives have the levers Theresa May is back in Downing Street today (DM)

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman refused to say when she will bring her deal back to the Commons

of power’. Mrs May was ejected from the Brussels summit dinner and forced to eat alone as the talks continued to overcome the split and EU leaders then rejected her June 30 extension after calling her makeor-break summit display ‘evasive’ and ‘confused’. UK, (DAILY MAIL), 22

MARCH 2019