MPs would then have to face the real choice: May’s deal, another referendum or leaving with no deal. Rudd wrote in the Daily Mail on Saturday that the government should forge a consensus across party lines, implying a tack toward a softer Brexit. Norway-plusThe former Conservative minister Nick Boles has been enthusiastically promulgating the idea of a Norway-style Brexit for several months, as has the Labour backbencher Stephen Kinnock. Some believe their constituents want a Brexit outcome that includes control of migration, which Norway would not, others reject a soft Brexit in favour of aiming to overturn it altogether. Labour BrexitCorbyn and his shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, insist that if May’s deal is voted down, their first priority would be to win parliament over to Labour’s alternative approach.

Source: The Guardian December 16, 2018 18:42 UTC