The Prime Minister invited Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab, Iain Duncan Smith, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Steve Baker and David Davis to her country retreat for last-ditch talks. Michael Gove, the Environment Secretary, and David Lidington, the Prime Minister’s de-facto deputy, were both said to have praised the Prime Minister for her leadership. Gove said he was “terrified” by the prospect of backbench Tory MPs pushing the UK into membership of the single market after Brexit. One Cabinet minister told The Telegraph: “If we get the Prime Minister’s deal through that’s brilliant, but it looks increasingly unlikely. His visit to Downing Street came after he was “bombarded with text messages” and urged to confront the Prime Minister.

Source: National Post March 25, 2019 00:11 UTC