Less than an hour later, the Tory chief was meeting Mr Juncker to sign off what Mrs May hoped would be the clinching revision to get her deal through Parliament. (Image: AFP/Getty Images)“Today we have secured legal changes,” claimed the PM, whose original pact suffered a crushing 230-vote defeat in January. Thirty minutes later, the European Research Group’s eight lawyers began poring over the new deal to decide if they could back it. Half an hour later, Mrs May appeared before her harshest Brexit critics - the Conservatives’ 1922 Backbench Committee. (Image: Peter Macdiarmid/LNP)Inside the secret meeting, she pleaded with Tory MPs not to torpedo her deal.

Source: Daily Mirror March 12, 2019 19:18 UTC