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Brexit today - LIVE: May and Corbyn in angry Brexit clash amid row over Johnson’s Ireland border comments Brexit today - as it happened: May and Corbyn in angry clash amid row over Johnson’s Ireland border comments
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Brexit dominates the agenda today after Brussels published a 120-page draft of the EU withdrawal treaty, stoking up huge tensions over the future of the Northern Ireland border. Theresa May has rejected an EU proposal for the Northern Ireland border as something “no UK Prime Minister could agree to”, on a day when Brexit tensions threatened to bubble over.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson prompted a major row in an explosive leaked memo, where he suggested there could be a “significantly harder” border on the island of Ireland. Brussels published an 120-page draft agreement on the EU withdrawal that proposed a “common regulatory area” for Northern Ireland after Brexit, if no other solution could be found – effectively keeping the province in a customs union.
In the Commons, Jeremy Corbyn raised the Government’s Brexit strategy – and divisions – during their weekly clash at Prime Minister’s Questions. It came as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson caused a major row with an explosive leaked memo where he suggested there could be a “significantly harder” border on the island of Ireland after Brexit.
But Theresa May said the Government was “absolutely committed to ensuring that we deliver on no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland”.  Former prime minister Sir John Major also made an explosive intervention in the debate, saying MPs should be allowed a free vote on the prospect of a second referendum, while tearing into Ms May’s negotiating strategy.
It comes after the Labour leader made a dramatic policy shift in favour of backing a European customs union in a speech earlier this week. In the Commons, Jeremy Corbyn also attacked the Government’s Brexit approach in an angry clash at Prime Minister’s Questions.
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