Theresa May gains support with 'backstop' Brexit plan

UK prime minister makes progress on proposal to avoid hard border, despite claims of disarray over Brexit strategyStalemate; deadlock; impasse – or as Jeremy Corbyn put it at PMQs on Wednesday, complete disarray. The narrative about Theresa May’s approach to Brexit and the customs union has barely changed for weeks.Yet officials were congratulating themselves quietly on Thursday about making incremental progress on a closely interlinked issue – the Irish border. Continue readin