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Hardliners rubbish Brexit deal as not securing the country’s sovereignty as promised Following the epic five-hour British Cabinet meeting, during which up to 10 Ministers were said to have expressed their reservations about the Brexit deal, Prime Minister Theresa May had on Wednesday announced that she had secured Cabinet backing for the deal. The move was swiftly welcomed by European Union leaders and the 585-page text of the deal was published, with explanatory notes, offering politicians in both Britain and on the continent the opportunity to make informed assessments of what had been agreed. A summit for EU leaders to finalise and formalise the deal would take place on November 25, “if nothing extraordinary happens” EU President Donald Tusk said earlier on Thursday. Future uncertain This entire process is now mired in uncertainty as Raab, and Esther McVey, the Work and Pensions Secretary, both stood down alongside junior Ministers Shailesh Vara, Suella Braverman, Ranil Jayawardena and Ann-Marie Trevelyan. All pointed to concerns that under the terms being proposed for a backstop — to avoid the creation of a hard border on the island of Ireland — Britain would effectively be locked in an indefinite customs arrangement with the EU, with no way of a unilateral decision to exit by Britain. Another politician, Rehman Chishti, stepped down as Conservative Vice-Chairman and the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Pakistan over both Brexit and the U.K.’s failure to offer Asia Bibi immediate asylum, arguing that it was failing to live up to core principles. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the chair of the influential hard-Brexit campaign European Research Group, submitted a letter to the Conservative Party’s 1922 committee calling for a no-confidence vote in Ms. May’s leadership. If the committee, made up of Conservative backbenchers, received letters from enough MPs calling for this, it would trigger a vote of no-confidence in the Prime Minister, and a leadership battle for the party and country. “The problem was having a Remain Prime Minister,” Mr. Rees-Mogg told journalists after the submission of his letter. “This is not Brexit, this is a failure of government policy,” he insisted. During a heated session of the House of Commons on Thursday, Ms. May faced a political pummelling from all sides of the House on a deal that one MP described as already “dead in the water.”
