Former Brexit secretary David Davis has promised to vote against Theresa May’s Brexit plan, raising the prospect that the prime minister could be defeated in parliament later this year.
Mr Davis said on Sunday that Mrs May’s so-called Chequers proposal, which prompted him to resign in July, was “worse than the [UK’s] existing deal” inside the EU.
As parliament returns from its summer recess this week, Mrs May is fighting a revolt by Eurosceptic Conservative MPs and party members who want Britain to break more decisively with EU regulations after Brexit.
She has promised to put Britain’s withdrawal deal with the EU to a vote in parliament, and could be defeated if about 10 Tory MPs rebel, because the party lost its Commons majority in the 2017 general election.
[...]In a message directed at Eurosceptic Conservatives, Mrs May wrote in the Sunday Telegraph that she would not “be pushed into accepting compromises on the Chequers proposals that are not in our national interest”.
However, Mr Davis said Mrs May’s caveat about the national interest was “an incredible ‘open sesame’,” that would encourage the EU to demand further concessions. [...]
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