Prime Minister Theresa May could be forced into a Brexit that keeps the UK inside the European Union’s single market after she loses the crunch vote on her deal next week.
That is the view among some senior officials inside the government, on both the pro-and anti-Brexit wings of the Conservative Party.
On Tuesday, Parliament is slated to vote on whether May’s Brexit deal should survive or die. All the signs are that politicians in the House of Commons will choose overwhelmingly to stop the agreement May has struck after 18 months of talks with the EU.
Rewriting her plan to maintain the