The Day Today

• UK PM May is due to meet with trade unions today to reassure them about her Brexit deal
• Labour leader Corbyn signals he is willing to support a delay in Article 50 although the length of the delay remains up for debate
• HuffPost: senior Labour MPs want a 3-month delay rather than the 9-month proposed by the Cooper amendment
• Intl Trade Sec Fox warns that the UK’s trading partners do not “genuinely”

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• Labour shadow Chlr McDonnell: “it is increasingly likely” that Labour will back the Cooper amendment
• Former UK Chlr Osborne: Article 50 extension and Brexit delay is the “most likely outcome”

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• PM May presents her ‘Plan B’ to Parliament and offers cosmetic changes to the backstop
• Labour calls for a vote to avoid No Deal and includes a second EU referendum
• Eurosceptic Tory MP Dorries,

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• UK PM May will present her ‘next steps’ in the Brexit process to Parliament today
• Bloomberg: PM May will give up on cross-party talks and focus on winning over the DUP and Tory rebels
• Sunday Times: ~300 pro-EU cross-party MPs will meet today to table amendments aimed at giving Parliament control of the Brexit process
• Labour Shadow Brexit Sec Starmer: only options to the UK are a second referendum or soft Brexit
• Telegraph: PM May aides consider re-writing Good Friday Agreement to break backstop impasse
• Labour responds to Telegraph story that it would require a referendum in both Ireland and Northern Ireland
• Ireland Dep PM Coveney rejects the proposal on a free-trade agreement instead of the backstop
• Germany Europe Min Roth urges the UK to “think again”

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• Labour leader Corbyn refuses to reveal Labour policy but says any second referendum cannot be a “re-run” of 2016
• Times: DUP ready to agree to softer Brexit deal provided there is a UK-wide Customs Union
• Telegraph: 5 Cabinet ministers say there will be mass resignations from Cabinet and Tory whip should PM May fail to stop No Deal
• PM May tells Labour leader Corbyn that ruling out No Deal is an “impossible”

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