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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: Tories against Brexit, the Salisbury poisoning and Sweden’s election

15 September 2018

9:00 AM

15 September 2018

9:00 AM

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Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, was said to want to throw a lifeline to Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, but he insisted: ‘It is not possible to get freedom for goods without freedom for services, in particular for the movement of people.’ Up to 80 Tory MPs would vote against the government’s plan hatched at Chequers in July, Steve Baker, a former Brexit minister, said.

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