Brexit: Ex-minister outlines plan for MPs to seize control of EU withdrawal as Brussels issues warning over Irish border
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Your support makes all the difference.MPs are drawing the battle lines for a potential extension to the Article 50 process and “indicative votes” on a fresh EU referendum, as they table rival Brexit plans ahead of a Commons clash next week.
It comes after Theresa May was warned that up to 40 government ministers could resign if she refuses to allow them to vote for a plan that would prevent a no-deal scenario on 29 March.
Speaking on Monday, Ms May vowed again to seek changes to the Irish border backstop – leading to Jeremy Corbyn to compare her statement to “Groundhog Day”, adding it was like last week’s crushing defeat on her Brexit deal “never happened”.
For events as they happened, see our live coverage below
The UK Government has cancelled talks with senior politicians from Scotland and Wales over Brexit, MSPs have been told.
Fiona Hyslop, the Scottish Government's External Affairs Secretary, said a meeting of the Joint Ministerial Committee due to be held on Thursday will no longer take place.
She said the move "flies in the face of the prime minister's rhetoric" after Theresa May promised an "enhanced role" for the devolved governments in Brexit negotiations.
Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted at the time she was "very sceptical" about the commitment.
A Cabinet Office spokesman confirmed: "Diary pressures mean that we are not going to be able to do that on Thursday as was planned."
Sophie Walker has stood down as the leader of the Women's Equality Party today, after more than four years at the helm. A former member writes for us about how the party needs to start taking the views of members on board.
My colleague Rob Merrick has picked up on some extraordinary slogan ideas from the Brexit camp if there is a second referendum.
Highly paid fund managers who control trillions of pounds of pension savings are failing to hold public companies to account over “out of control” executive pay, MPs have been told.
More here from our business correspondent Ben Chapman:
Theresa May is under pressure from within her cabinet to back a plan to secure a time-limit on the ‘Irish backstop’ hated by so many Tory MPs.
Three senior ministers are pushing for her to support the move to let parliament vote on introducing a sunset clause to the backstop.
They argue it would give her leverage to extract concessions from the EU, but there is reticence to explicitly back the plan in Downing Street because it could go down badly in Brussels, as it contradicts the deal Ms May spent 19 months negotiating.
More from our political editor Joe Watts:
The UK’s Prevent counter-extremism programme is to undergo an independent review, the government has announced after years of controversy.
Ministers and senior police officers had previously dismissed criticism and urged communities to support the scheme, resisting persistent calls to overhaul or rebrand it.
But on Tuesday, the security minister said the “time was right to initiate a review of Prevent”.
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