Sign up here to receive the daily news briefing in your inbox every morning with exclusive insight from the BrexitCentral team EU gives Theresa May three weeks to win her Brexit vote… European Union leaders last night handed Theresa May a three-week lifeline to come up with an alternative Brexit plan if her withdrawal deal is not approved by MPs. After nearly seven hours of wrangling the 27 leaders agreed to give Mrs May an unconditional extension until April 12 to “indicate a way forward”. If her deal is passed, Brussels will give the government until May 22 to pass the legislation that would implement Brexit. If the deal is not agreed by the April deadline, however, Britain will be forced to choose between a no-deal Brexit or agreeing to hold European elections in return for a longer extension to the Article 50 process. “The UK government will still have a choice of a deal, no-deal, a long extension or revoking Article 50,” Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, said. “April 12 is a key date in terms of the UK wondering whether to hold European parliament elections. If it has not decided to do so by then the option of a long extension will immediately become impossible.” Brussels will impose further conditions, such as holding elections or a second referendum, on Britain in return for a long extension, defined in internal EU legal documents as until December 31 or beyond. – The Times (£) EU leaders offer UK delay to May 22 – if MPs back Theresa May’s deal – Telegraph (£) May warns MPs they face ‘moment of decision’ after EU agrees just a two week Brexit delay until April 12 before Britain crashes out if her deal fails again… but that UK can stay in bloc until May 22 if she finally gets it through – Daily Mail …as she is forced to wait outside summit room for hours as EU leaders set the Brexit timetable without her Theresa May was forced to endure the humiliation of waiting outside a summit room for hours as feuding EU leaders carved up Brexit’s timetable without her. The PM went to Brussels to issue a plea for a three month Brexit delay to June 30 to give her a final chance to pass her exit deal next week. After grilling her for 90 minutes, Europe’s 27 leaders then asked her to leave. A massive row then ignited among them over what to do, as different national bosses pitched different ideas and ripped up Mrs May’s – with all fearing her third and final ultimatum to MPs would fail. In an embarrassment to her, Britain’s PM was left having to wait nervously for more than five hours in a nearby room with no windows, with only her No10 officials for company. An EU official told The Sun: “When leaders asked her what she was going to do, PM May would only say she was still pursuing Plan A of getting the deal through. – The Sun EU leaders decide UK’s fate behind closed doors as Theresa May secures Article 50 extension – Independent Theresa May refuses to rule out no-deal exit if her plan falls for third time… Theresa May refused to rule out taking the U.K. out of the EU without a deal as she arrived at what could be her last European summit. The U.K. prime minister said she would discuss with fellow leaders her request for a short extension of Article 50 until the end of June, something the EU has said would only be feasible if MPs back her deal in the House of Commons next week. Asked whether she would be willing to see the U.K. leave without a deal next Friday, if the deal is rejected for a third time, May said she “sincerely” hopes the country could leave with a negotiated settlement but that “what matters” is delivering Brexit. “What is important is that parliament delivers on the result of the referendum and that we deliver Brexit for the British people,” she said. “I sincerely hope that we can do that with a deal. I’m still working on ensuring that parliament can agree a deal so that we can leave in an orderly way. What matters is that we deliver on the vote of the British people.” – Politico …with some suggesting she is now actively considering it… In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Theresa May made a momentous choice. After a day of acrimonious debate in her cabinet and inner circle, the prime minister decided that she was willing to take Britain out of the EU without a deal. At Thursday’s European Council meeting in Brussels, EU diplomats wondered whether Mrs May was bluffing, but those close to the prime minister said if she cannot secure her Brexit deal she is determined the UK should embark on a no-deal exit. Since announcing on Wednesday that she would ask EU leaders for a short extension to the bloc’s Article 50 process — to delay Brexit from March 29 to June 30 — people who have spoken to the prime minister said she is reconciled to the implications of what happens if the UK parliament continues to reject her withdrawal agreement. – FT (£) …and Liz Truss explicitly saying May should go for No Deal next week instead of pushing Brexit back… Theresa May should opt for No Deal over accepting a lengthy Brexit delay, Liz Truss said today. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury said No Deal was now “more likely” than a long delay if the PM’s deal is defeated again in the Commons next week. Asked if she would rather a No Deal than an extension, Ms Truss told The Sun: “God yes. No extension.” She added: “I believe No Deal is better than a long extension.” And Ms Truss, who is Chancellor Philip Hammond’s deputy, said Britain was ready for a No Deal. Dismissing gloomy forecasts of an economic fallout after a No Deal Brexit, she added: “I don’t believe the plague of locusts stuff.” Today EU bosses agreed to give Theresa May a two-month extension to the Brexit process – but only on condition that her deal makes it through the Commons next week. If the deal falls for a third time, the legal default is that we crash out without a deal next Friday. Mrs May insists she will never sign up to a longer extension which keeps Britain in the EU past the summer. Ms Truss would be joined by Brexiteers such as Andrea Leadsom in welcoming a No Deal outcome rather than a further Brexit delay. – The Sun …but Remain ministers warn May they will quit if she blocks a free vote on a new bid to stop No Deal Remain ministers have warned the Prime Minister that they are prepared to quit unless she gives them a free vote on a new backbench bid to stop no deal. A cross-party group of MPs is on Friday expected to table a new amendment that will force the Prime Minister to accept a longer extension to Article 50 if her deal fails. The amendment, which will be voted on next week, will mean that if Mrs May’s deal is defeated Parliament – rather than the Prime Minister – will decide whether to accept any offer of a longer extension of Article 50 from Brussels. A group of eight Remain ministers met Julian Smith, the Chief Whip, on Thursday to demand a free vote on the amendment to avoid the threat of mass resignations. One of the ministers told The Daily Telegraph: “The level of anger is off the scale. Her public statement was appalling. She has performed a complete u-turn by requesting a short extension.” – Telegraph (£) Supporters of May’s deal say they could desert the PM after her ‘misjudged attack’ on MPs… Supporters of Theresa May’s Brexit deal say they could now desert the Prime Minister after she launched a “misjudged attack” on the “very people she needs to win over”. The Prime Minister is on course to lose a third vote on her deal “by an even bigger margin” than last time after a fierce backlash from Cabinet ministers, Labour MPs and senior Tories. Her decision to blame Brexit intransigence on Parliament provoked widespread fury and prompted some MPs who previously supported her deal to consider changing their minds. Mrs May’s Downing Street statement on Wednesday evening succeeded in uniting her critics inside and outside of the Government as one Cabinet minister said the deal was now “doomed” to another defeat. Meanwhile, Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, refused to back Mrs May’s strategy of blaming MPs as he said during a visit to Essex: “I’ve just come from Westminster to get away from Brexit.” The Tory grassroots responded with fury as Mrs May was told her decision to seek a Brexit delay to June 30 would ensure she went down in history as “the worst prime minister this country has ever had”. – Telegraph (£) …as a chastened May seeks to make amends for ‘cataclysmic’ 24 hours On Wednesday, a cornered Mrs May came out fighting, suggesting she would quit rather than see Brexit extended beyond June 30, indicating that she was willing to oversee a no-deal exit and hectoring MPs for blocking her deal. Yet by the time she emerged from a humbling encounter with fellow EU leaders in Brussels — where she pleaded for a delay to Brexit — Mrs May cut an emollient figure, reaching out to MPs in the hope that they might give her deal one last chance. Journalists leaving Mrs May’s press conference in Brussels were bewildered by the change in tone. “They must have changed her chip,” whispered one reporter as the prime minister left the rostrum. Mrs May looked like a prime minister given an unexpected reprieve. The EU’s decision to set a new Brexit cliff-edge of April 12 has given her time — her most cherished commodity throughout the Brexit process — to try to save her deal. – FT (£) Theresa May says she blamed MPs out of ‘frustration’ – Politico DUP ‘won’t be bribed’ into backing May’s Brexit deal The DUP’s Brexit spokesperson Sammy Wilson has rejected claims his party asked for money in exchange for backing Theresa May’s Brexit deal. Last week, the party met with the Prime Minister and other senior cabinet figures, including Chancellor Philip Hammond for Brexit talks, prompting speculating a “money-for-votes” scenario was on the table. In 2017, the DUP controversially entered a confidence and supply agreement with the Conservatives, propping up the Tory government in exchange for an extra £1bn in public funds for Northern Ireland. Speaking to BBC NI, Mr Wilson rejected claims that money was offered to the DUP during last week’s meetings. “There is no bribe and we wouldn’t have accepted a bribe,” he said. “It was the government who decided to involve the chancellor, not us, the issues at stake are far too high to simply say it can be resolved with financial incentives. If people drew their own conclusions from that, then they don’t understand what we are about.” Speaking on Sunday, however, Philip Hammond refused to rule out offering the party a financial incentive. He said: “This isn’t about money, it is about political assurance. We are coming up to a spending review and we will have to look at all budgets, including devolved block grant budgets, in that spending review. Of course we will.” – Belfast Telegraph Jeremy Corbyn refuses to rule out cancelling Brexit if he were Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn twice refused to rule out revoking Article 50 and cancelling Brexit if he became prime minister after meeting European Commission chiefs in Brussels yesterday. The Labour leader vowed to prevent a no deal Brexit after holding “constructive” talks with Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, and Martin Selmayr, the commission secretary general in Brussels. Asked directly on two occasions if that would include supporting moves for a lengthier extension to allow for another referendum or to cancel Brexit outright, Mr Corbyn would only say, “These are hypotheticals”. Later, the same day in the Belgian capital Theresa May asked EU-27 heads of state and government for a short Brexit extension at a summit. The prime minister has asked the EU to push back next week’s March 29 March deadline until June 30 to avoid a no deal exit and to give MPs time for a third ‘meaningful vote’ on her Brexit deal. Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, said on Wednesday the EU would grant a short extension, if MPs passed the deal. “Our determination is to prevent a no-deal exit from the European Union next Friday,” Mr Corbyn told reporters, “The problem is that the prime minister seems to think that she can run down the clock by constantly threatening the British parliament with a no deal exit unless they support her deal”. – Telegraph (£) Corbyn not ruling out revoking article 50 to avoid no-deal Brexit – Guardian Jeremy Corbyn refuses to rule out cancelling Brexit to stop No Deal after EU talks – The Sun Britain heading for another election as the only way to sort out Brexit chaos, warns William Hague Britain is now on course for a snap General Election thanks to the endless Brexit chaos, William Hague has warned. The ex-Tory leader predicted Theresa May’s Government will “collapse” if she failes to push her deal through next week. And he even said MPs would end up rebelling and voting to trigger an election as the only way to resolve the crisis. Lord Hague told ITV’s Peston last night: “I think the chances of an election are rising strongly. “Because ultimately the Government can be pushed, particularly during a delay, into reconciling itself with a No Deal Brexit or into a longer and longer delay, and that either of those options are likely to bring about the collapse of the Cabinet, of the Conservative Government, even of Conservative members voting against their Government on a motion of no confidence. So you can quite easily, more easily than people think, get to a General Election.” For Tory MPs to join Labour in voting down the Government and triggering an election would be an unprecedented defiance of the party system. But Lord Hague said the current crisis is unique in “the last two of three hundred years”. – The Sun Ministry of Defence uses nuclear bunker to plan for no‑deal Brexit Military planners have taken to a nuclear bunker under Whitehall as they step up no-deal Brexit preparations. The Ministry of Defence has deployed dozens of staff to work on Operation Redfold, the military element of the wider government no-deal planning that is Operation Yellowhammer. The defence personnel are operating from the Pindar complex, a government crisis command bunker built beneath the MoD’s headquarters in Westminster opposite Downing Street. The subterranean military citadel is named after the Ancient Greek lyric poet whose house was the only building left standing in Thebes after Alexander the Great’s forces razed the city. The bunker is thought to have been completed in the early 1990s at a cost of about £125 million. It has been most commonly used as a government communications centre and a venue for high-level wargames, according to reports. The complex includes a bomb shelter area, emergency briefing room, broadcast studio, bunk rooms and an industrial-sized document shredder. – The Times (£) EU has plans in place to mitigate impact of No Deal If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the effects will be felt by people and companies across Europe. The EU has adopted measures to mitigate the impact of a disorderly withdrawal. The EU has repeatedly stressed that it favours an orderly withdrawal of the UK from the Union. It concluded a withdrawal agreement with the UK to ensure the two parties can continue to collaborate on various issues to their mutual benefit, nevertheless the EU has adopted measures to reduce the impact of a possible no-deal Brexit. These measures cannot replicate the advantages of being part of the EU. They are temporary, unilateral measures. Some will require UK’s reciprocity in order for them to come in force. – European Parliament Theresa May told by chairman of 1922 committee that Tory MPs want her to quit over Brexit Theresa May has been told by the most senior Tory backbencher that MPs want her to stand down because of her handling of Brexit, The Telegraph can reveal. Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 committee of Tory MPs, visited the Prime Minister in Downing Street on Monday afternoon and made clear that a growing number of Tories believe she has to go. The visit by Sir Graham to Downing Street on Monday came after he was “bombarded with text messages” by colleagues and urged to confront the Prime Minister with demands that she should quit. Sir Graham imparted their calls in a “neutral” manner in his role as chairman of the 1922 committee during the meeting in Downing Street. The Prime Minister is facing a mounting backlash from both Eurosceptic and Remain ministers amid stark warnings from Cabinet ministers that her Premiership could be over within a week. The Telegraph can reveal that behind the scenes the Prime Minister has faced a series of direct challenges to her authority over the past fortnight. Just hours before the second meaningful vote on the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal last week, which she lost by 149 votes, Mrs May was confronted by a group of 15 whips. – Telegraph (£) SNP supposedly willing to compromise to see off Brexit Nicola Sturgeon will “not necessarily” announce a second independence referendum when she outlines her plans for Scotland’s future in the coming weeks, the SNP’s deputy leader at Westminster has said. Kirsty Blackman said that the SNP was still willing to “compromise” to keep the UK in the European Union and added that Ms Sturgeon “will lay out the plans for Scotland’s future within a matter of weeks”. Ms Sturgeon told MSPs yesterday that she expected clarity on Brexit within the next few days. Ms Blackman told BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland: “We’ve been very clear that the best future for Scotland is an independent Scotland within the EU. She will make an announcement on where we will go. ‘Scotland will act’ doesn’t necessarily mean an independence referendum.” Ms Sturgeon said in January that she would set out her timetable for another independence referendum but has since refused to do so against the backdrop of Brexit chaos at Westminster. – The Times (£) Bernard Jenkin: Britain now has only two choices – No Deal, or a long delay There is no point in apportioning blame. The Prime Minister has a point about the House of Commons. However, let he (or she) who is without sin cast the first stone. The 2016 EU Referendum result was the first time that the electorate’s opinions differed from those of its politicians. But instead of humbly acknowledging that the country they governed wanted something significantly different, many MPs have invented all sorts of excuses for distorting the meaning of the result, or simply dismissing its authority. Leave voters were misled, they were too old, too stupid – or even racist. Some have argued that enough Leavers have now died or changed their minds since the referendum to discount the winning margin – an analysis which, funnily enough, is never applied to the 48 per cent. Then came the conspiracy theories. Did social media swing the vote unfairly? Or was it Putin? But there are certain immutable facts. Parliament agreed the referendum and then accepted the decision. The Electoral Commission has never even hinted that the result was unsafe. – Bernard Jenkin MP for the Telegraph (£) John Redwood: Expect plenty of spin before a possible third vote on the Agreement The government is proceeding as if there will be a third vote on the Withdrawal Agreement on Monday. They will of course need to persuade the Speaker that something meaningful has changed from the previous version they put to the Commons, which lost by 149 votes. The government approach to get MPs to vote for the Agreement depends on which MP they are talking to. Leave supporting MPs I hear are told there will be a long delay to Brexit or no Brexit if they do not vote for the Agreement. Remain voting MPs are told there would be a no deal Brexit on 29 March. As all this has appeared in the press, the two sides can see that at least one side is not getting the truth. The danger for the government is both sides may choose not to believe the government, knowing it faces different ways. There are some Conservative Leave inclining MPs who switched votes between the first vote on the Agreement and the second. They were mainly won over to what they still regard as a very bad Agreement by the worry that maybe the alternative was a long delay. – John Redwood’s Diary Stephen Bush: Theresa May’s speech has infuriated the Labour MPs she needs to back her deal When Theresa May has a difficult day in the House of Commons, her preferred solution is to invite the television cameras round to Downing Street and then to say nothing at all – or at least, nothing that she hasn’t said several thousand times before. The reason why the Prime Minister does this is that it allows her to reclaim a measure of control over the news agenda, something that her communications chief, Robbie Gibb, former head of political programming at the BBC, is well-versed in. On Wednesday, May had looked deeply uncomfortable – more uncomfortable, that is, than usual – at the despatch box and was continually barracked by Labour’s Maria Eagle. So in order to avoid a series of unflattering clips on the six and ten o’clock news, a set of good photo opportunities was arranged. A meeting between May and the various opposition leaders was held at Downing Street, then the Prime Minister addressed the cameras just before nine. All in all, a good day’s work. But the big problem is that Theresa May has nothing to gain from securing some good clips on the news because she is not going to lead the Conservative Party into another election. She isn’t quite the party’s last choice – but she is close. – Stephen Bush for the Telegraph (£) Iain Martin: Macron’s harsh words make no deal more likely Even those of us who are sceptical about Emmanuel Macron should acknowledge that the French president had a point today when he told the Brits to make a decision one way or the other and get on with it. It is now 1001 days since the 2016 referendum. Everyone has had enough. Even the British have grown heartily sick of faffing about on Brexit. Macron brought some welcome plain-speaking to the table in Brussels, where EU leaders were meeting for a European Council with Brexit on the agenda. Unless MPs at Westminster vote for the deal negotiated between the British government and the EU, Macron said, then it looks like no deal will happen in a week’s time. “We have to be clear,” he said. “We can discuss and agree a technical extension in case of a yes vote. In case of no, I mean directly it will guide everybody to a no deal. For sure. This is it. We are ready.” It seems unlikely that Macron’s intervention will help get the deal over the line. Tory diehards will feel emboldened by his words and dig in all the more. As they see it, May has accepted that no deal is the likeliest outcome. They are not going to follow Macron’s advice to save a deal they hate. – Iain Martin for The Times (£) Robert Peston: What Kwasi Kwarteng’s leaked notes tell us about No. 10’s Brexit strategy I’ve been passed copies of media briefing notes prepared for the junior Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng, who this morning did a round of TV and radio interviews. My source is a political one, not another hack or media person, which I point out to prevent any suspicion that a media company is behaving badly by passing me the document. What is striking – and important – is that Kwarteng has been instructed, presumably by Downing Street, to avoid saying that MPs face a choice between backing the PM’s deal and a no-deal Brexit, even though that is how the PM and the EU’s president Donald Tusk seemed to be framing the choice yesterday. Expecting to be asked in interviews that it’s ‘no-deal if you lose MV3 [a third meaningful vote on the PM’s deal]’, Kwarteng is told to reply ‘you’re getting ahead of yourselves’. Elsewhere in the note, headed ‘top lines and Q&A’ it says that if MPs reject the PM’s deal again, ‘MPs will have to decide how to proceed’. There is no suggestion that a no-deal Brexit is the automatic consequence. – Robert Peston for The Spectator Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: German alarm grows over the EU’s dangerous ultimatum terms for Britain Ever louder voices in Germany are denouncing the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement as a fundamental failure of European statecraft that can lead only to a diplomatic debacle and festering animosity. If the EU’s ultimatum policy causes a geostrategic rupture with a pillar of the European defence, security, and financial system – sooner or later, as it surely must under the existing terms – the recriminations in Berlin will be ugly. “Europe is well on the way to inflicting huge damage on itself for decades by the way it has handled the failed Brexit talks,” said Marcel Fratzscher, head of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. Professor Fratzscher says the EU is undermining its own democratic legitimacy by demanding that Westminster MPs swallow the Barnier package with a “gun to their chest” and subject to threats of “catastrophic consequences” after two-thirds have already rejected it. Parliament is fully justified in rejecting a backstop arrangement that would lock UK in a customs union against its will. “No sovereign nation could agree to such terms lightly. The Bundestag itself could hardly have voted otherwise in comparable circumstances,” he wrote in Der Spiegel this week. – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard for the Telegraph (£) Brian Monteith: If Theresa May’s withdrawal deal passes, it will haunt the Tories forever I’m sure that the speaker had his own reasons for announcing that Theresa May cannot just keep bringing back the same motion to parliament so she can browbeat, blackmail and bribe her backbench MPs into supporting the abomination that is her withdrawal agreement. I’m sure he is hoping that, in whittling down the options open to the government, he is doing his best to frustrate Brexit and maybe even reverse it. But I really don’t care about his motives – I am grateful to him nonetheless for obstructing May’s plan. We were already seeing MPs holding their noses and opining that they would vote for a bad, no, a very bad deal rather than risk having nothing to show for all their best efforts over the last two years. Succumbing to the Prime Minister’s bullying is not good government, it is not how to make good laws, and it is certainly not how to agree what will become an international treaty that will be practically impossible to amend or escape from. Of course, the Prime Minister shall try to find ways to circumvent Bercow’s ruling – so her deal is not dead yet. If passed, it will not be long before the stark and desperate reality is recognised by the British public. At that point, probably before the local elections in May, the Conservative party in general and particularly those Tory MPs who backed the Prime Minister will be accused of betraying and humiliating a once great country. – Brian Monteith for City A.M. Tom Harris: What Corbyn really wants on Brexit It is a truth universally acknowledged that a politician in possession of a political party must be in want of a policy. And Jeremy Corbyn’s opportunity lies in the fact that he already has a policy to help guide him through these treacherous Brexit waters. It was agreed at last year’s annual conference, and it mandates… precisely nothing. Remain-supporting Labour MPs like to insist that Corbyn is obliged, now that his preference for a fresh general election has been frustrated, to pursue a second referendum to give us the chance to make amends for our making the wrong decision last time. But – and this cannot be emphasised too often – that is not what Labour conference policy says. It actually instructs the leadership to demand a general election and then, if that effort fails, to consider all alternatives, including a rerun referendum. That is exactly what he is doing today – considering alternatives. Belatedly attempting to earn the mantle of elder statesman (that’s half right), the Labour leader has called on MPs to work together to find a consensus that will make it through parliament. – Tom Harris for CapX Leo McKinstry: Tories must end this squabbling and deliver Brexit It is now more than 1,000 days since the British people voted to leave the European Union. But during this period our politicians have miserably failed to implement the result. In place of any determination to restore our national independence, there has only been prevarication and posturing. As MPs play their procedural games, the prospect of Brexit recedes ever further into the distance, heaping humiliation on our country and destroying faith in democracy. The Prime Minister was accurate when she said yesterday that Parliament has “indulged itself on Europe for too long” and “Britons deserve better”. Yet her words are likely to go unheeded. Far from focusing minds, the imminence of the official deadline for Britain’s departure at the end of next week has only intensified the paralysing crisis. Having been rebuffed by the Speaker John Bercow in her attempt to bring back her withdrawal agreement for a third vote, Theresa May is now negotiating with the European Council for an extension until June 30 of Article 50, the legal instrument by which Britain ends its EU membership. – Leo McKinstry for the Express Anne-Elisabeth Moutet: Sorry, Madame May – Macron will block a lengthy Brexit extension There are many reasons why France will veto a long extension to Brexit next week if, as expected, Theresa May doesn’t manage to pass her deal on the third (or hundredth, as it often feels) attempt. The obvious one is that Emmanuel Macron believes an extension will only lead to more of the same Westminster omnishambles. Allowing the extension to run after May 22 means Britain would need to hold European elections. Forget the complete mess this would cause in the UK. Forget the obvious question of what happens with the former UK MEP seats that have already been apportioned to other nations’ contingents now running for election. It’s the performance of his own embattled La République En Marche (LREM) party at the EU elections that Emmanuel Macron is thinking of, as well as his overweening pan-European ambition. After four and a half months of sometimes violent Gilets Jaunes unrest, Macron has calculated that the time is ripe to run on a “me or the Fascists” platform, at home and abroad. For the past year, he’s made undiplomatically nasty swipes at such European leaders as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Matteo Salvini, and Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki, the nicest of which was calling them a “populist leprosy”. – Anne-Elisabeth Moutet for the Telegraph (£) Brexit in Brief Public sympathy for Theresa May does not mean voters approve of her Brexit deal – Asa Bennett for the Telegraph (£) Why the Brexit postponement plan could tear apart the Government and both political parties – Robert Peston for ITV News MPs are as much to blame for this Brexit mess as May – Philip Collins for The Times (£) The Customs Union has had no beneficial effect on UK trade with Eastern Europe – Joel Rodrigues ‘There’s still a lot of space in hell’: How Europe reacted to the Brexit delay – Telegraph (£) Denmark pig farmers’ fury as 90 percent of exports go to UK – Express Brexit ‘fatigue’ not holding back shoppers, Next says – Telegraph (£)