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Five pizza-eating cabinet ministers — Andrea Leadsom, Penny Mordaunt, Liam Fox, Michael Gove and Chris Grayling — put it about that Theresa May, the Prime Minister, could be persuaded to amend the draft withdrawal agreement with the EU before she signs it at a summit this Sunday. But Mrs May said that she had a deal and was determined to ‘deliver’ it. Having warned that if her Brexit withdrawal agreement was rejected Britain could end up either with no deal or no Brexit, Mrs May went off to Brussels, leaving the new Brexit Secretary, Stephen Barclay, behind. Jacob Rees-Mogg had declared that he had sent a letter to Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the backbench 1922 committee, calling for Mrs May to go; 48 in all were required, but numbers rose slowly, and some MPs withdrew their letters after sending them. Asked if his plot had descended into a Dad’s Army farce, Mr Rees-Mogg said: ‘I’ve always admired Captain Mainwaring.’
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