Conservatives react angrily to defeat of May's Brexit plan

Conservative MP Nick Boles said: “The ERG want a no-deal Brexit and will stop at nothing to get it”.Theresa May is set to face intense pressure from remain-minded Conservative MPs to finally face down hardline Brexiters in her party after a planned restatement of a departure strategy agreed two weeks ago by the Commons was defeated.Abstentions by MPs from the pro-Brexit European Research Group (ERG) played a big part in seeing the government motion voted down after the Brexit secreta