Brexiteers are setting up May’s Brexit talks to fail
Senior Conservative Brexiteers are setting the prime minister up to fail in her mission to renegotiate the Brexit deal, a member of Theresa May's Cabinet has said, after the party's MPs ruled out backing the Withdrawal Agreement even if there are major changes to it.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, who leads the anti-EU European Reform Group of Conservative MPs, said that they would not back May's deal, even if she secured a unilateral exit clause, or a time-limit, to the controversial Brexit backstop.
The backstop is an insurance policy within the Withdrawal Agreement, designed to prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland in all circumstances after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.
Neither a unilateral withdrawal or an end date solve the problems o...