May’s real plea to the EU: save me from a second referendum | Matthew d’Ancona

After her humiliating win, the prime minister embarks on a grand tour needing a miracle to avoid the Brexit option she dreads most

It’s Thursday, and so the crisis of the day for Theresa May is a make-or-break meeting with her European Union counterparts in Brussels.

Having achieved what can only be described as a humiliating victory last night – 117 of her own MPs voted to get rid of her – the prime minister now seeks concessions from the EU that she hopes will make her 585-page withdrawal agreement more palatable to hardline Brexiteers and the 10 Democratic Unionist MPs who prop up her government.

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