Johnson dependent on Labour MP votes for any Brexit deal

Boris Johnson meets with the president of the EU commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, in Luxembourg.Photograph: Pool/Getty ImagesBoris Johnson will still need a bloc of Labour MPs to vote for any Brexit agreement struck with the EU, even if his whips have managed to reduce the number of Tory Eurosceptic “Spartans” holding out against a deal down to just eight.The prime minister insisted again on Monday that he wants a deal with Brussels that removes the Northern Ireland backstop. But eve