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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: Moment of truth for Theresa May’s Brexit deal

17 November 2018

9:00 AM

17 November 2018

9:00 AM

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Theresa May, the Prime Minister, defended a 500-page technical draft of the agreement on withdrawal from the European Union. She met immediate opposition from the Democratic Unionists, from Jacob Rees-Mogg and from Boris Johnson. Mr Johnson’s brother Jo (a Remainer) had earlier resigned as a minister, calling Mrs May’s handling of Brexit a ‘failure of British statecraft on a scale unseen since the Suez crisis’.

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