The UK should "explore" allowing qualified free movement of workers from the EU after Brexit, Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said.

In a potential softening of Labour's position, Sir Keir called for alignment with the EU's single market.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg is questioned by Newsnight's Nick Watt on Whitehall

Jacob Rees-Mogg has said it would be "very difficult" for Brexiteer Tories to support Theresa May unless she secures actual changes to the text of her Brexit deal.

The remarks by the leader of the European Research Group may complicate Downing St attempts to find a consensus among Conservative MPs in a Commons vote tomorrow.

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Media captionCommons Leader Andrea Leadsom tells Newsnight the EU could grant the UK a “couple of extra weeks” to finalise Brexit

Andrea Leadsom has said that the EU may be prepared to grant the UK a "couple of extra weeks" beyond the 29 March deadline to finalise preparations for Brexit.

The Commons leader said that in light of the UK's strong relationship with its "EU friends", the UK could be allowed more time for an approved deal to pass all its parliamentary stages.

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Isolated and apparently friendless, Theresa May is retreating to her natural comfort zone.

The prime minister is embarking on yet another push to see if she can win over Brexiteer Tories and the DUP to support an amended version of her Brexit deal.

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Theresa May has failed to achieve the most important goal she set herself after delaying the vote on her Brexit deal last month.

Assurances from Brussels on the Northern Ireland backstop, laid out in a letter today, do not go far enough to allay the concerns of the Democratic Unionist Party.

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Amber Rudd is prepared to push the Treasury to introduce tax cuts for low paid workers, potentially costing more than a billion pounds.

In a major change to the troubled universal credit system, the work and pensions secretary said she favoured calls to cut the "earnings taper".

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Theresa May, in red, faces the camera while EU leaders in dark suits walk away from the camera.

Theresa May is cautiously hopeful that her telephone diplomacy with EU leaders over the Christmas break could pay off over the next week.

After calls with Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister believes there is a growing mood in the EU to help the UK avoid a no-deal Brexit scenario.

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Over the coming weeks we may find that a figure supposedly above the political fray becomes a highly significant force in the heart of that fray.

Step forward John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, who has the ability to exercise considerable power over the nature of Brexit.

Read full article Brexit: How John Bercow could end EU referendum gridlock

It turns out that Harold Wilson was wrong when he said a week is a long time in politics.

In these fraught times at Westminster a long time is measured in hours, minutes or even seconds.

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A Tory grandee recently sidled up to me to express grave reservations about the Brexit process.

"We simply cannot allow the Irish to treat us like this," the former minister said about the negotiating tactics of the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar.

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