The UK parliament last month roundly rejected a Brexit deal Prime Minister Theresa May had sealed with the remaining 27 EU leaders. MPs are set to vote on Britain’s Brexit options on February 14. Brokenshire’s promise of another vote two weeks later is designed to discourage lawmakers from binding the government’s hands this week. May’s Brexit minister Stephen Barkley will meet EU negotiator Michel Barnier on Monday and foreign minister Jeremy Hunt will visit Paris and Warsaw this week. Brexit backers in May’s party think the so-called “backstop” arrangement in the current deal would keep Britain indefinitely tied to EU rules.

Source: Punch February 10, 2019 15:00 UTC