The Day Today

• UK DEFRA Min Eustice resigns from Govt due to “the decision this week to allow the postponement of our exit from the EU”
• Sun: other pro-Brexit Tory MPs are prepared to vote for PM May’s deal provided she resigns in coming months
• Hanbury poll: 32% of people who identify as Labour voters would rather vote for a TIG candidate
• Guardian: EU 27 are pressuring EU Tusk to write into Article 50 extension,

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• PM May’s motion to the House of Commons passes unopposed
• Labour Shadow Chlr McDonnell confirms that Labour will now pivot a second EU referendum
• Sun: pro-Brexit MPs are accused of softening their stance to help Boris Johnson become PM
• Guardian: PM May is due to present series of pledges regarding workers and citizen’s rights to get Labour MPs on side
• ECB Villeroy: ECB should consider risks from negative interest rates used over a long time
• FT: EU lawyers tell EU Parliament they could still constitutionally sit even if the UK did not hold an election in June
• France Pres Macron warns that France may not agree to an Article 50 extension
• Italy Dep PM Di Maio fights off questions regarding his political position after a poor 5-star electoral performance
• Fed Chair Powell: “We are not looking at a higher inflation target,

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• UK PM May plans to give Parliament the choice between her deal, No Deal or an Article 50 delay in series of votes
• Pro-Brexit Tory MP Rees-Mogg softens Brexit stance and no longer thinks backstop scrapping is the only condition for his support
• Telegraph: pro-remain ministers were called “kamikaze”

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• Up to 15 ministers write a letter to PM May threatening to resign unless she moves to avoid No Deal
• Evening Standard: Downing St is prepared to stop pro-EU ministers rebellion by offering a vote to delay Article 50
• Bloomberg: PM May is due to present her plan after a Cabinet meeting today to Parliament
• Labour shifts their Brexit position to backing a second referendum should Parliament reject a Labour-style Brexit
• Labour Shadow Brexit Sec Starmer: referendum should be between a “credible Leave option and Remain”

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• UK PM May has delayed any meaningful vote on her deal until latest March 12th
• Senior Labour and Conservative MPs Cooper and Letwin’s legally binding amendment that give Parliament control of Brexit process has cross-party support
• Telegraph: Downing St officials circulate plan to delay Brexit by 2 months up to European elections
• Pro-EU Cabinet Ministers Rudd,

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