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• How Theresa May's plan was brokered despite Tory divisions

  29-01-2019 23:48
  When the prime minister returns from Brussels, she has concerns to deal withWhen Theresa May addressed the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers on Monday night, she was still undecided whether to throw the government’s weight behind an amendment that effectively demolished her own negotiated deal.Downing Street had been caught unawares by the reaction of the core group of hard Brexiters who had decided the amendment by Sir Graham Brady, seeking “alternative arrangements” to the
  
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• Brexit: May goes back to Brussels but EU says nothing has changed

  29-01-2019 23:15
  MPs pass amendment pledging to replace Irish backstop with ‘alternative arrangements’How each MP voted – interactiveTheresa May was handed a two-week deadline to resuscitate her Brexit deal last night after she caved to Tory Eurosceptics and pledged to go back to Brussels to demand changes to the Irish backstop.With just 59 days to go until exit day, MPs narrowly passed a government-backed amendment, tabled by the senior Tory Graham Brady, promising to replace the Irish backsto
  
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• Respite for May at price of appeasing Brexit ultras

  29-01-2019 23:06 via ft.com
  The prime minister has united her party with a deal she knows she cannot deliver
  
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• Brexit: How did my MP vote on the amendments?

  29-01-2019 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Find out how your MP voted on the latest Brexit proposals in the House of Commons.
  
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• Parliament sets May on Brexit collision course with EU

  29-01-2019 23:01 via ft.com
  Prime minister’s U-turn persuades Eurosceptics to support hermove to renegotiate deal
  
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• Labour MPs rebel to vote down Cooper's no-deal amendment

  29-01-2019 22:52
  Caroline Flint and Eurosceptics Kate Hoey and Dennis Skinner among group of 14 rebelsHow each MP voted – interactiveFourteen Labour MPs voted with Theresa May’s government to prevent parliament from taking steps to prevent a no-deal Brexit by extending the article 50 negotiating period in order to agree an alternative deal with the EU.The former minister Caroline Flint and Laura Smith, the MP for Crewe and Nantwich, joined with the veteran Eurosceptics Kate Hoey, Graham Stringer and
  
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• No renegotiation, says EU after MPs back plan to replace backstop

  29-01-2019 22:46
  Brussels reiterates position minutes after Commons backed plan to replace Irish backstopAll of the day’s political developments – live updates
  Theresa May immediately hit a brick wall in Brussels after being backed by MPs to reopen the withdrawal agreement, as Donald Tusk, with the backing of Emmanuel Macron, said the EU would not renegotiate. Related: The Guardian view on Theresa May’s victory: a pyrrhic success built on fantasy | EditorialContinue reading...
  
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• Though parliament rejected no deal, we’re now closer to it than ever | Anand Menon

  29-01-2019 22:45
  Brexiteers will construct a narrative of EU intransigence. ‘There was something we could agree to, but Brussels wouldn’t listen’Well this is all going swimmingly, isn’t it? Another evening of parliamentary pantomime after which nothing of substance has been achieved. But what pantomime! We’ve seen the prime minister join her party in demanding changes to the deal negotiated by – the prime minister. She backed an amendment that unpicked a deal she negotiated, t
  
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• The Guardian view on Theresa May’s victory: a pyrrhic success built on fantasy | Editorial

  29-01-2019 22:43
  Mrs May will have her work cut out to wrangle a new Brexit deal in Brussels, especially as her plans to reopen it have been rejectedTheresa May won a rare triumph on Tuesday night in the Commons. She came back from the greatest parliamentary loss by a government to secure, miraculously, a majority to refresh her wilted withdrawal agreement. Mrs May has had to vote against her own defeated deal to do so. She has had to offer MPs another chance to judge her government in a fortnight’s time.
  
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• May thinks she’s won. But the reality of Brexit will soon hit her again | Rafael Behr

  29-01-2019 22:34
  The Brady amendment passed. But ultimately the problem is not the deal, or the backstop, or Brussels: it is Brexit itselfBritish politics now follows the tortured pattern of addiction. Inside the addict’s head the most important thing is getting to the next Brexit fix, scoring the best deal. But from the outside, to our European friends and family, it is obvious that the problem is the compulsive pursuit of a product that does us only harm. On Tuesday night Theresa May thought she had scor
  
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• Amendment-apocalypse: Spineless MPs just voted against reality

  29-01-2019 22:30
  
  Devastating evening sees MPs give up any attempt to take responsibility to Brexit and engage in fantasy amendments instead
  
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• UK parliament backs May plan to renegotiate Brexit deal

  29-01-2019 22:17 via ft.com
  EU’s Tusk signals opposition to reopening Irish backstop after 317-301 vote by MPs
  
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• Theresa May gets Brexit deal backing after amendment votes

  29-01-2019 22:17 via ft.com
  PM wants the reopening of the Brexit deal with Brussels
  
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• Brexit amendments: What did MPs vote on and what were the results?

  29-01-2019 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  MPs voted on a series of amendments designed to change the direction of Brexit.
  
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• MPs' best quotes from the Brexit debate

  29-01-2019 21:57
  Key soundbites from Tuesday’s Commons debate on Theresa May’s EU withdrawal dealFollow the latest developments – live updates
  How each MP voted – interactiveTheresa May: “The world knows what this house does not want. Today we need to send an emphatic message about what we do want.”Jeremy Corbyn: “It will not be any comfort to say: ‘I told you so’ when the lorries are backing up on the M20, when cancer patients can’t get medicines and w
  
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• Hargreaves Lansdown’s Brexit bother comes down to values

  29-01-2019 21:06 via ft.com
  Proportion of group’s shares being sold short rises despite its resilient performance
  
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• Brexit becomes an engrossing spectator sport

  29-01-2019 20:31 via ft.com
  May’s push to reopen her withdrawal agreement proves a big draw at Westminster
  
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• May rolls the dice with move to reopen Brexit deal

  29-01-2019 20:01 via ft.com
  Prime minister sides with Eurosceptic critics despite EU insistence on no renegotiations
  
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• May to demand reopening of Brexit deal with Brussels

  29-01-2019 19:34 via ft.com
  PM tells MPs she seeks ‘a significant and legally binding change to withdrawal agreement’
  
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• Steve Bell on the latest plan to end the Brexit impasse – cartoon

  29-01-2019 19:01
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• Ireland to hold firm despite ‘no-deal’ Brexit threat

  29-01-2019 17:58 via ft.com
  Finance minister Donohoe admits economy would suffer but says backstop must stay
  
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• Theresa May shifts Brexit stance and reopens deal

  29-01-2019 17:09 via ft.com
  Prime minister suggests time limit or exit clause to backstop but faces EU resistance
  
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• Brexit: May to ask EU to reopen withdrawal agreement over Irish backstop

  29-01-2019 17:04
  PM backs Graham Brady’s amendment, which seeks to replace backstop with ‘alternative arrangements’Brexit developments – latest updates
  Theresa May has announced to the Commons that she plans to return to Brussels and seek to reopen the painstakingly negotiated withdrawal agreement so as to seek legally-binding changes to the Irish backstop.The prime minister confirmed that the government would back an amendment tabled by senior Tory backbencher Sir Graham Brady, which see
  
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• English councils’ request for additional funding rebuffed

  29-01-2019 16:50 via ft.com
  Government confirms tight 2019/20 funding settlement
  
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• UK retirees in EU will lose free healthcare under no-deal Brexit

  29-01-2019 15:49
  Burden on NHS could increase after 29 March if pensioners return to UK for treatmentFollow the day’s political developments – live updates
  British nationals who have retired to EU countries including Spain and France will no longer have their healthcare covered by the NHS in the event of no Brexit deal, the government has said.The confirmation will come as a blow to around 190,000 British citizens retired in the EU in places such as the Spanish Costas, Provence in France and Tuscany
  
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• UK financial watchdogs seek to shore up post-Brexit EU accords

  29-01-2019 15:04 via ft.com
  Regulators negotiate with bloc so they can continue to share data in no-deal scenario
  
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• Labour ready to back Cooper amendment on article 50 extension

  29-01-2019 14:18
  Party wants to reduce no-deal threat but would prefer shorter extension than is proposedAll of today’s Brexit news – live updates
  Labour has said it would support Yvette Cooper’s amendment to extend the article 50 negotiating period to allow time for the UK to avoid crashing out of the EU without a deal, giving it a very good chance of being carried if selected for a vote by the Commons Speaker.The party said it wanted to “reduce the threat of the chaos of a no-deal&rdquo
  
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• Philip Hammond to deliver Spring Statement on March 13

  29-01-2019 13:51 via ft.com
  UK chancellor has no plans to unveil changes to tax and spending plans, he says
  
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• DUP throws weight behind Tory MPs’ backstop alternative

  29-01-2019 13:39 via ft.com
  Proposals from hard Brexiter and Remain alliance envisage plan B of trading on WTO terms
  
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• The Dickensian fog of Brexit

  29-01-2019 13:34 via ft.com
  Parliamentary votes will make for absorbing political theatre, but provide no clear way out of impasse
  
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• Nick Clegg squirms as Facebook apologist-in-chief. Sound familiar? | Gaby Hinsliff

  29-01-2019 13:06
  The former deputy PM is used to taking the rap for unpopular policies. But the Facebook gig could be a poisoned chaliceOnce upon a time there was a Tumblr account called Nick Clegg Looking Sad, which consisted almost entirely of pictures of the then deputy prime minister looking miserable.It doesn’t seem to have been updated since the 2015 general election, presumably because that represented peak misery, but I was reminded of it on Tuesday when Clegg made his first outing as spin doctor f
  
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• The 'Malthouse compromise': everything you need to know

  29-01-2019 13:02
  Full details of the overnight plan that has won the backing of key Brexiters and remainersAll the day’s Brexit news - live updates
  Full list of amendments to Theresa May’s Brexit bill
  A compromise Brexit plan has emerged overnight in Westminster with the backing of heavyweight Tory Brexiters and remainers, including Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nicky Morgan.Two factions have thrown their weight behind the unexpected new compromise plan, backed by several ministers, which would involve a redra
  
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• Desperate new Tory Brexit compromise is as pitiful as all the others

  29-01-2019 12:47
  
  Peace deal between Nicky Morgan and ERG Brexiters is an embarrassment for all concerned.
  
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• Brexit: EU dismisses Tory compromise plan as unworkable

  29-01-2019 12:44
  Brussels sceptical about Irish border proposal backed by Brexiters and remainersThe ‘Malthouse compromise’: everything you need to knowBrexit latest – follow liveA plan from rival Conservative factions aimed at securing a breakthrough in the Brexit impasse has been greeted with immediate scepticism from EU officials, who said the proposals were not workable.Senior Tory Brexit supporters including Jacob Rees-Mogg and Steve Baker hatched the plan with leading remainers including
  
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• That brand new Tory plan for Brexit? Here’s why it’s dead in the water | David Henig

  29-01-2019 12:42
  As a trade expert I can immediately see several fatal flaws in the so-called ‘Malthouse compromise’There is considerable excitement in the Conservative party on Tuesday morning. It looks like a deal has been reached on Brexit. There’s just one problem, that, from what we can gather of the so-called “Malthouse compromise”, it stands no chance of being acceptable to the EU.There seem to be three fundamentals to the plan: the extension of the implementation period to 2
  
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• Investors prepare for UK pound tumult ahead of Commons vote

  29-01-2019 12:28 via ft.com
  Implied volatility rises to highest level since mid-January Brexit vote
  
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• Interest in Brexit compromise grows among UK public

  29-01-2019 12:00 via ft.com
  Polls indicate British opinion could yet be won round to May’s deal or Norway option
  
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• Eurosceptic and pro-EU Tory MPs draft Brexit compromise

  29-01-2019 10:10 via ft.com
  Proposals aim to smooth post-withdrawal transition if Theresa May’s deal is defeated
  
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• Labour urged to consult grassroots members on Brexit

  29-01-2019 08:00
  Activists lobby party’s ruling body in hope of online poll that could lead to ‘people’s vote’
  Supporters of a second referendum are calling on Labour’s ruling body to consult grassroots members about the party’s Brexit policy. Related: Labour support for Yvette Cooper’s Brexit amendment in doubtContinue reading...
  
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• Dear Damian Hinds: tree climbing, lifesaving classes … why this policy flurry?

  29-01-2019 08:00
  All this ‘busy-work’ from the Department for Education is achieving nothingA phrase I learned some years ago working in schools is “busy-work” – work that keeps children busy but has little value in itself, as the dictionary puts it. It first cropped up in an education report in South Carolina in 1886.This old tradition has taken a hold on you and your department. Since late November, you’ve been issuing policy statements at least once a week covering tree-cli
  
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• Brexit weekly briefing: MPs prepare to make do or amend

  29-01-2019 08:00
  The voting lobbies will be busy this week as decisions on various options are madeWelcome to the Guardian’s weekly Brexit briefing: essential reading now more than ever as crunch time draws near. If you would like to receive this as a weekly email, please sign up here. And catch our monthly Brexit Means … podcast here.Producing the Guardian’s independent, in-depth journalism takes time and money. We do it because we believe our perspective matters, and it may be yours too. If
  
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• Britannia rules the waves? After Brexit, it’ll be floundering | Polly Toynbee

  29-01-2019 07:00
  P&O’s decision to ditch the British flag shows the decline of our rich seafaring traditionNever underestimate the Brexit romance, the tug for an island nation set in a silver sea unconquered for 10 centuries, proud of its insularity. The idea of the sea wrenches at British heartstrings: you can hear it when you listen to the language of the Brexit groundswell. Normandy landings, D-day pluck, empire, sailors – leave voters use this imagery, however far from the shore. Related: Com
  
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• Can the Brexit backstop be renegotiated?

  29-01-2019 06:12 via ft.com
  A look at the options as Theresa May tries to recast the plan for Northern Ireland
  
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• Back to the backstop

  29-01-2019 06:12 via ft.com
  What needs to change in the deal to tackle the border in Ireland and is it possible to negotiate? The FT look at the options
  
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• Can I take out Brexit travel insurance?

  29-01-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  I’m worried about the possible effects of leaving the EU on our holiday plans
  
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• MPs line up against no-deal Brexit ahead of vote

  29-01-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Analysis of who backed amendments and made public statements highlights problems for May
  
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• MoD raises defences against bids for work from EU

  29-01-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Draft law takes away automatic right of European contractors to chase UK orders
  
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• Labour digital chief working with hard Brexit groups

  29-01-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Software developer’s company processes data for no-deal campaigners
  
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• Brexit: the key amendments by MPs to May’s deal

  29-01-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  The Commons will vote on Tuesday on proposals to break the parliamentary impasse
  
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• Brexit: key amendments by MPs to May’s deal

  29-01-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  House of Commons to vote on Tuesday on proposals to break parliamentary impasse
  
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