May planning to reject calls for cross-party consensus on Brexit

Several senior Conservative MPs have suggested they could form a breakaway party if Theresa May opted to support a customs union.Theresa May is expected to reject calls to forge a cross-party consensus on Brexit when she lays out her plan B to parliament on Monday, choosing instead to back new diplomatic efforts in Brussels to renegotiate the Irish backstop.The prime minister held a conference call with her bitterly divided cabinet from the country retreat of Chequers on Sunday evening.