Growing backbench Brexit rebellion has been months in the making

Yvette Cooper’s amendment to restrict spending on a no-deal Brexit won the support of 20 Conservative MPs on Tuesday.Yvette Cooper and Dominic Grieve may have defeated the increasingly beleaguered Theresa May with their respective Brexit amendments over the last 24 hours – but each victory has been the product of months of backbench conversations.At the heart of it all is a group of Labour backbenchers – and a growing number of Conservatives – who have been campaigning fo