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		</div><p>Jacob Rees-Mogg has signalled that he may be willing to accept a short delay to Brexit if it is required to finalise legislation around a deal.</p>
<p>The leading Brexiteer said a brief extension to the Article 50 period, which is currently due to end on March 29, “is not impossible” if needed for Parliament to complete scrutiny of a withdrawal agreement.</p>
<p>However, Mr Rees-Mogg insisted that such a delay must not be used for further “vacuous negotiations” with Brussels.</p>
<p>The chairman of the European Research Group of Leave-supporting Tories indicated his support for a limited delay after Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned extra time would be needed to pass laws if MPs approve a deal at the eleventh hour.</p>
<p>Earlier this week Theresa May secured Parliament’s backing to go back to Brussels in hope of hammering out a fresh agreement that does not include the Irish border backstop – which is unacceptable to the DUP and Brexiteer Tories – and which will command a majority in the Commons.</p>
<blockquote><p>If the agreement were made but a little parliamentary time were needed, as long as the second reading had taken place a short extension is not impossible.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Prime Minister is due to report back to Parliament on her negotiations with the EU on February 13, with a further series of votes by MPs expected the following day.</p>
<p>Wrangling in the Commons has seen backbench MPs put forward a range of alternative plans to find a way out of the morass.</p>
<p>They include amending legislation to delay Britain’s scheduled departure from the EU and avoid a no-deal Brexit which some consider would be damaging.</p>
<p>Attempts to postpone the date of departure from the European Union beyond March 29 are little more than ploys to keep the United Kingdom as a member state in spite of the referendum and subsequent Acts of Parliament,” Mr Rees-Mogg said.</p>
<p>However he accepted that, with 55 days left till Brexit day, the timetable is “tight” and if a deal is struck and laws of such magnitude will demand proper scrutiny.</p>
<p>“Thus, if the agreement were made but a little parliamentary time were needed, as long as the second reading had taken place a short extension is not impossible,” he said.</p>
<p>“Equally, to delay for the purpose of vacuous discussions would be solely to thwart Brexit. It must not be for that purpose and should be opposed if negotiations are incomplete.”</p>
<p>Mr Rees-Mogg has backed the so-called Malthouse Compromise, drawn up by MPs from the Tories’ Remain and Leave wings, as a means of getting a deal through Parliament.</p>
<p>This would see the backstop removed and replaced with a free trade agreement that would avoid the need for a hard border in Ireland.</p>
<p>Eurosceptics would also agree that the implementation would last for an extra year, Mr Rees-Mogg said.</p>
<p>He added that if the EU rejects the plan then Britain would leave without a deal, but with a “purchased implementation period” that would give until 2021 for the UK and EU to either begin trading on World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules or strike a new agreement.</p>
<p>Reports have suggested Mrs May could face a wave of resignations by pro-Remain ministers if she does not rule out a no-deal Brexit when she returns to Westminster from Brussels in a fortnight’s time.</p>
<p>In an interview with the Financial Times published on Saturday, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd said she felt no-deal would be a “bad outcome and I feel we are getting too close to it”.</p>
<p>“I’m concerned it could happen by mistake. The Government and all MPs have a responsibility to try to stop that,” she said.</p>
<p>A range of dire predictions have been made about the potential consequences of Britain crashing out of the EU without a deal next month.</p>
<p>On Saturday The Guardian reported that Environment Agency officials have raised concerns internally over the potential for a backlog of waste if export licences become void overnight on March 29.</p>
<p>Mary Creagh, chairwoman of the Commons Environmental Audit Committee, told the paper: “The UK’s waste and recycling system is already fragile but these shocking emails show it will grind to a halt if customs checks and WTO tariffs prevent the export of millions of tonnes of waste.”</p>
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