EU says withdrawal agreement 'not open for renegotiation' as No 10 says deal must change – Politics live

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happenBrexit backstop amendment would give May ‘enormous firepower’EU says withdrawal agreement ‘not open for renegotiation’Downing Street lobby briefing – Summary 1.42pm GMT For our Future’s Sake (FFS), the student-led anti-Brexit campaign, has released some polling from Opinium suggesting young people are losing faith in Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of Brexit. “In just 6 months, 18-34-year-old’s approval of how Corbyn is responding to Brexit has plummeted 27 percentage points, from +13% in July to -14% this week,” it says. Kira Lewis, an FFS activist, said:Unfortunately, over the last 6 months, there’s been a massive drop in young people’s approval of how Jeremy Corbyn in handling Brexit. The reason for this is painfully clear – the overwhelming majority of Corbyn supporters, like myself, want Labour to back a People’s Vote on the Brexit deal, but if Labour and him enable Brexit, they are at risk of losing young supporters. 1.37pm GMT It is quite possible that all the Brexit amendments called tomorrow will be voted down, the Times’ Henry Zeffman argues.Here’s one scenario for tomorrow which is unlikely but I think underpriced. None of the amendments have a majority, Cooper etc fall narrowly. And yet May’s motion in neutral terms also does not have a majority. What happens then? May goes back to Brussels with no cards at all?All VERY moveable, but I think this is actually quite likely – that’s why ERG and Labour leader’s office decisions on what, if anything to back, probably later today matter a lot – Parliament may just, again, show itself incapable of coalescing around anything at all https://t.co/xlTLD5bzPa Continue reading…
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