Huddersfield Daily Examiner

I will make a case for this deal – May

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swearing in nurseries, and 12% highlighte­d that they often hear children using profanitie­s. The poll, by daynurseri­es.co.uk, received 1,125 responses from nursery owners, managers and staff. MORE than half of frontline medical staff fear their hospitals will not be able to keep patients safe this winter, an “alarming” new poll has revealed.

A new poll by the Royal College of Physicians found that 58% of doctors felt “worried” or “very worried” about the ability of their hospital to deliver safe patient care over the winter months.

Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth branded the findings “alarming” and said there must be cash available to meet pressures. AN ARTIST is creating the UK’s largest cast bronze sculpture – so huge that when he is lying down he is the same size as one of its feet.

Messenger, depicting “a young, powerful woman”, will be unveiled next year in front of the Theatre Royal Plymouth, which commission­ed Joseph Hillier to create the work. It is now being cast at the Castle Fine Arts Foundry in the Welsh village of Llanrhaead­r-YmMochnant, using the ancient technique of lost wax casting.

Hillier was inspired by the split-second pose of an actor rehearsing for Othello on the theatre’s stage. The sculpture, spanning seven metres high THERESA MAY has urged MPs to embrace a “brighter future” and back her Brexit plan as EU leaders finally signed off on the deal hammered out in Brussels.

On a historic day in Brussels, the Prime Minister insisted the agreement delivered on the promises of the EU referendum as she set the stage for a Commons showdown with her critics.

After the leaders of the remaining 27 member states, meeting in the Belgian capital, took less than 40 minutes to approve the deal, she confirmed she would now put it to a vote of MPs before Christmas.

And as EU leaders lined up to insist that there could be no renegotiat­ion, Mrs May said the public was fed up of wrangling over Brexit and wanted to move on.

“It will be one of the most significan­t votes that Parliament has held for many years. On it will depend whether we move forward together into a brighter future or open the door to yet more division and uncertaint­y,” she said.

“The British people don’t want to spend any more time arguing about Brexit. They want a good deal done that fulfils the vote and allows us to come together again as a and nine metres wide, is too large to be put together inside the foundry.

It is being made in sections and once its 200 bronze panels are complete, 30 master craftsmen and women will weld them together. It will be installed as part of Theatre Royal Plymouth’s £7.5 million regenerati­on project. country. I will take this deal back to the House of Commons, confident we have achieved the best deal available and full of optimism about the future of our country.

“In Parliament and beyond it, I will make the case for this deal with all my heart and I look forward to that campaign.”

However, with more than 80 Tory MPs declaring publicly that they intend to vote against the plan, Mrs May faces an uphill battle to make the parliament­ary arithmetic add up.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt insisted she could carry on as Prime Minister if she was defeated. “Absolutely she can,” he told BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show.

However pressed on whether the Government could collapse, he acknowledg­ed: “It’s not possible to rule out anything.”

Jeremy Corbyn confirmed that Labour would be voting against the agreement, denouncing it as a “bad deal” for Britain.

“It is the result of a miserable failure of negotiatio­n that leaves us with the worst of all worlds,” he said.

Mrs May refused to be drawn on whether she would stand down if she lost the vote, despite being repeatedly pressed during her end of summit press conference.

“I am focusing on ensuring that I make a case for this deal to MPs,” she said.

Meanwhile, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker led the warnings that there could be no return to the negotiatin­g table if the deal - comprising the Withdrawal Agreement and the Political Declaratio­n of future EU-UK relations - was rejected.

“This is the deal. It’s the best deal possible and the EU will not change its fundamenta­l position when it comes to these issues,” he said. “Those who think by rejecting the deal that they would have a better deal will be disappoint­ed in the first seconds after the rejection of this deal.”

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