Andrea Leadsom said she was trying to find an alternative that would avoid a cliff edge FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA/EPAAndrea Leadsom has spelled out how a “minimalist” divorce deal with the EU could be struck if MPs reject Theresa May’s Brexit agreement in three weeks’ time. The Commons leader becomes the latest senior figure to challenge collective cabinet responsibility after Amber Rudd said there was an argument for a second referendum. Mrs Leadsom confirmed she had been looking at a “managed no-deal” Brexit as an “alternative solution” to the prime minister’s deal if that cannot get through parliament. The Brexiteer former leadership contender told the BBC programme Today: “No deal implies that we leave in March and there are absolutely no agreements whatsoever. “But what we already saw yesterday, in the EU’s preparations which they have very belatedly started to make for no deal,…

Source: The Times December 20, 2018 09:07 UTC