I learned two fascinating things about the Labour and Tory refuseniks in The Independent Group from my guests on the Peston show last night (at 11.05 on ITV) – though quite how much of it made it on to the show I am not sure, because we had a hard stop at the end of a jam-packed episode.
First Gavin Shuker told me that he and Chuka Umunna and other MPs still in the Labour Party made an offer to the PM after she lost the meaningful Brexit vote in January that they would support her in office for at least a year and vote for her Brexit deal if she pledged to put that deal to the people in a referendum.
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