Politics

“Would I rather accept a new European treaty that is frankly very bad for us? Or would I prefer for us to have an extension and a general election? I would always prefer the latter option.”

The biggest sticking point in the talks between the EU and the UK was how to ensure free-flowing movement across the Irish border.

Such a move could win favour from the Liberal Democrats, the SNP and a handful of the 21 Tory rebels who lost the whip over supporting the Benn act.

“If the Government is so confident they’ve secured a good Brexit deal then they shouldn't shy away from putting it to the people.”

A deal has been agreed.

Arlene Foster and Nigel Dodds have highlighted three major obstacles, dealing a blow to Boris as the EU summit kicks off.

The Government has negotiated a Withdrawal Agreement that appears to breach Section 55 of the Cross-Border Trade Act 2018 - amendments tabled by its own hardline Brexiteer ERG group.

The Prime Minister emphatically told a DUP conference that “no British Tory government could accept customs controls between Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

Cable: I want the Lib Dems to become a “party of more open, internationalist liberal people who would absorb social democrats of the Labour Party and one-nation conservatives.”