Theresa May is sitting her cabinet colleagues down this afternoon to tell them that they need to agree on her plan to keep the United Kingdom in a customs union with Brussels until a permanent trade deal can be agreed.
The Prime Minister's backstop brainwave would remove the final major obstacle to a withdrawal agreement being nailed down. But controversy is guaranteed, given that Mrs May used to argue that staying close to European customs rules risked - in her words - "betraying the British people".
Brexiteers at the Change Britain campaign have not hesitated to point out the 21 times Mrs May has insisted that she intended to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union's customs union.... Telegraph.
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