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quit last week, including her Brexit secretary, while MPs from all parties came out against it, increasing the chances that Britain will crash out of the union on March 29 without an agreement.

A minister who opposed Brexit and who returned to May’s Cabinet in a reshuffle triggered by the resignations, tried to rule out this economically disruptive scenario yesterday in a BBC radio interview.

“It is my view that the parliament will stop no deal ... There isn’t a majority in the House of Commons to allow that to take place,” Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd said.

Rudd argued parliament should back May’s exit deal to restore certainty ahead of the March 29 deadline, but other MPs from both May’s Conservatives and the opposition are lobbying for a second referendum to, perhaps, reverse Brexit. –

Picture: EPA Olaf Niess, known as the ‘Father of the Swans’ catches birds in a lock on Alster Lake to take them to their winter home in Hamburg, Germany. The swans are moved to a small lake that is kept ice-free.