Theresa May leaves the BBC in central London after the phone-in. The prime minister faces seemingly intractable parliamentary arithmetic to get MPs’ approval for her withdrawal agreement. In a BBC phone-in as part of her drive to sell the deal to the public, she insisted that there was no mood on the EU side for new concessions. “If we were to go back to the European Union and say, ‘People didn’t like that deal, can we have another one?,’ I don’t think they are going to come to us and say, ‘We will give you a better deal’. This is the deal that I think works for the…

Source: The Times November 23, 2018 17:03 UTC