Theresa May has warned the UK faces “uncharted territory” if Parliament rejects her Brexit deal as she vowed to redouble her efforts to win MPs round.
Next week’s vote would “definitely” go ahead, she told the BBC, as she promised new safeguards for Northern Ireland and to look at giving MPs more say in shaping future EU negotiations.
The UK’s March exit was “in danger” if MPs did not back the deal, she said.
But one Tory Brexiteer said support for leaving without a deal was “hardening”.
And one senior Labour figure said she believed a general election may be inevitable “within months” if there was deadlock in Parliament and Mrs May could not get her deal through.
The UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019.
A deal on the terms of the UK’s divorce and the framework of future relations has been agreed between the
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