Theresa May issues an emotional New Year plea for MPs to unite on Brexit deal
THERESA May today issues a new year plea to MPs to back her Brexit deal so Britain can finally unite and “turn a corner” on its bitter EU schism. The PM’s emotional new call comes in her January 1 video message to the country. PA:Press Association The Prime Minister appeared emotional in her January 1 video message[/caption] It also emerged yesterday that she has began a frantic final eight days of calls to EU leaders in a race against time to save her agreement. No10 admitted that there is “still more work to do” to win extra legal assurances from Brussels for the hated Irish backstop – that keeps the UK in a customs union – to be temporary. MPs begin debating the deal a week tomorrow on January 9, ahead of the landmark meaningful vote on it the following week. In a video message released late last night, Mrs May said: “In the next few weeks MPs will have an important decision to make. Reuters Theresa May said in the video ‘We have all we need to thrive and if we come