Theresa May battles to save Brexit deal with efforts to woo DUP

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Theresa May will continue efforts to salvage her Brexit deal amid further signs of pressure on her position&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Further talks are expected over the coming days with the Democratic Unionist Party &lpar;DUP&rpar; in the hope that persuading the 10 Northern Irish MPs to back the deal will help sway scores of Tory Eurosceptics to fall into line&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds said lengthy talks on Friday with senior ministers including UK Chancellor Philip Hammond were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;constructive” and there was a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;renewed focus” from the Government on addressing their concerns&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Dodds said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have had a constructive dialogue&period; Those discussions will continue over the coming period of time&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The British Prime Minister is expected to bring her Withdrawal Agreement back for a third vote early next week despite its overwhelming 149-vote defeat on Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It has been a bruising week for Theresa May&comma; with her Cabinet in open revolt as the focus on her leadership intensified&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Daily Telegraph reported two senior Downing Street figures believe she should &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fall on her sword” by setting out the timetable for her departure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hi British Prime Minister Theresa May’s leadership has been questionedEarlier this week&comma; Tory MP George Freeman&comma; a former head of Mrs May’s policy board&comma; said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we need to choose a new leader” with a vision to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;make sense of Brexit” and Conservative veteran Christopher Chope said he would &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;seriously consider” voting against her in a Commons confidence motion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brussels has begun preparations for a possible delay to Brexit beyond the current March 29 deadline after MPs backed an extension to the Article 50 process&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Documents circulating among EU ambassadors make clear the bloc would  terminate the UK’s membership on July 1 if it has not taken part in European Parliament elections&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The draft paper obtained by the Financial Times makes clear Britain has to take part in the May 23-26 votes if it wants an extension of more than three months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The EU guidance echoes the briefing provided to MPs at Westminster before Thursday’s vote&comma; which said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;if the UK were to seek an extension beyond July 1&comma; and hence remain a member state beyond that point&comma; it would need to participate in the EP elections”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>British Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay&comma; who voted against the Government motion requesting an Article 50 extension&comma; indicated he would prefer a no-deal departure from the bloc to a long delay&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He told the BBC&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If we get the deal through as I hope we still will&comma; we will now need a short&comma; technical extension&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But&comma; if not&comma; we shouldn’t be afraid to leave with no deal&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Former Cabinet minister Esther McVey suggested fellow Brexiteers could back Mrs May’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;rubbish” deal next week to make sure the UK leaves the EU&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>British Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay&comma; who voted against the Government motion requesting an Article 50 extension&comma; indicated he would prefer a no-deal departure from the bloc to a long delay&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He told the BBC&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If we get the deal through as I hope we still will&comma; we will now need a short&comma; technical extension&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But&comma; if not&comma; we shouldn’t be afraid to leave with no deal&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Former Cabinet minister Esther McVey suggested fellow Brexiteers could back Mrs May’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;rubbish” deal next week to make sure the UK leaves the EU&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She told BBC Radio 4’s Political Thinking With Nick Robinson podcast&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The element now is that people will have to take a bad deal rather than no deal&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Any Brexit delay will require the agreement of the other 27 European Union members&comma; with talks about any conditions for an extension set to begin before leaders gather at a summit next week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>European Council president Donald Tusk met Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in The Hague on Friday&comma; before talks with the bloc’s key power brokers Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron on Monday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Following the talks&comma; Mr Rutte said the current Withdrawal Agreement is the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;only deal on the table”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;03&sol;92B28835-18CE-44BD-A46E-27214A509F67&period;jpeg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128042" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;03&sol;92B28835-18CE-44BD-A46E-27214A509F67&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1114" height&equals;"1478" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; former Ukip leader Nigel Farage will set out on his March to Leave&comma; starting in Sunderland later on Saturday and arriving in Westminster on March 29&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed651f51a20">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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