Amidst the Parliamentary drama at Westminster, last week a greater clarity emerged about the choices we face as a country.
In Strasbourg last Monday, I secured a package of legally-binding improvements to the Brexit deal that respond to the legitimate concerns of MPs about the Northern Ireland backstop. I said that a failure to support that improved deal would open up a range of undesirable alternatives, from not leaving the EU as scheduled on 29 March, to the risk of a second referendum, a general election or the increased possibility of leaving without a deal. So it proved.
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