Rees-Mogg’s ERG Won’t Support Backstop Amendments: Brexit Update

Two rival factions of Parliament will fight to take control of Brexit this week: If one wins, Brexit will probably be paused -- perhaps indefinitely.If the other wins, Theresa May will be sent back to Brussels to negotiate the all-but impossible.Prime Minister Theresa May threw the weight of her government behind a plan to scrap the contentious Irish border backstop, according to six people familiar with the prime minister’s comments to Conservative lawmakers.