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998 days after the referendum, Brexit is in crisis – because dozens of Tory MPs won’t vote for May’s deal. If one of them is your local MP, and you believe they should help deliver Brexit by backing the PM, send them this polite letter. The details are opposite ... so stand up and be counted (AGAIN!)

TWICE Theresa May’s efforts to secure Brexit have been voted down in the House of Commons.

Dozens of Tory MPs either won’t vote for the Prime Minister’s deal for leaving the EU on March 29 or have not yet declared if they are willing to support her.

If one of those Conservati­ves is your MP, the Daily Mail is offering you the chance to have your say and give them the push they need to honour the result of the referendum 998 days ago.

All you have to do is email them urging them to rally behind her, using their details below. Easier still, you can go on to our website at dailymail.co.uk/mpletter and click on a button that will automatica­lly paste the letter on to an email. Then you simply type in your MP’s email address.

You can also write to your MP at the Commons, although it might get there too late if the vote is held tomorrow as expected.

The scale of the opposition Mrs May is facing is illustrate­d by the extreme language of Steve Baker, self- styled shop steward of the Tory hard-Brexit rebels.

Mr Baker, deputy chairman of the intransige­nt European Research Group (ERG), has told colleagues: ‘I will carry on voting against her plan till the day I die.’ There also seems little prospect of ERG grandee Sir Bill Cash caving in. Asked last week if he would back Mrs May, the 78-year-old Tory MP replied: ‘I have been right about this for 45 years and I am not changing.’

Meanwhile, Mrs May’s supporters face as big a challenge in wooing diehard rebel Remainer Tory MPs, who want to water down or reverse Brexit.

An ally of the PM described Dominic Grieve and Phillip Lee as ‘Remainiacs’, adding: ‘They are as deaf to our pleadings as any ERG fanatics.’

To persuade Tory dissidents to back her in the Commons, Mrs May and her allies spent the weekend trying to change the minds of the 75 Conservati­ve rebels, made up of 64 Brexiteer ultras and 11 Remainer ultras, who voted against her last week.

Much depends on whether Ulster’s Democratic Unionist Party’s ten MPs can be convinced that the UK will not be trapped in the Northern Ireland ‘backstop’. DUP leader Arlene Foster has said her party is close to backing Mrs May.

But Conservati­ve whips freely admit they have a struggle on their hands to win over both hardcore Brexiteers and Remainers.

So what are you waiting for? This is your chance to make a difference ...

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