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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: May’s Brexit Plan B, IRA bombs and no one goes to Davos

26 January 2019

9:00 AM

26 January 2019

9:00 AM

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Theresa May, the Prime Minister, having survived a parliamentary vote of no confidence, came to the Commons with an amended plan for Brexit which would entail changing the Irish backstop agreement with the European Union. Otherwise Plan B looked very much like the Plan A that had been defeated by a majority of 230 a week earlier.

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