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Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, is expected to whip his MPs to vote against whatever deal the prime minister achieves because it is unlikely to meet his party’s “six tests” — in the hope that this could precipitate a general election.
But many of his own MPs are agonising about the risk of rejecting a May-brokered deal because the consequences could be a new, more Eurosceptic Conservative prime minister and a damaging no-deal Brexit.
One shadow minister said the decision over how to vote would be a “tough call” and a “crisis of conscience” for many Labour MPs because of the potential damage of a no-deal withdrawal agreement. [...]
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