Tory MPs: No room for concessions over Brexit deal
The Government's proposed Brexit deal leaves no room for further concessions to the EU, Leave-backing Tories have warned the Prime Minister.
Downing Street has been on a charm offensive with Conservative MPs since Theresa May and her Cabinet agreed a Brexit deal at Chequers on Friday – with mixed results.
Detailed talks were held between Number 10 and MPs on Saturday in a bid to reassure backbenchers over the Government's plans for Britain's future relationship with the EU, while further meetings took place on Sunday and Monday lunchtime.
But many MPs still hold significant concerns ahead of tonight's meeting of the influential 1922 Committee.
Brexiteer Mike Wood, the Tory MP for Dudley South, says he had a lengthy phone call with Downing Street on Saturday evening to go through concerns he had over the three page summary of the Chequers talks.
He said: "It is on the edge of what we can support, but it does just meet the test of what people were voting for in 2016.
"It maintains all the priorities that have been set out over the last 18 months.
"We will still be able to do independent trade deals, we will have control of our borders and we won't be paying an enormous membership fee every year.
"However I don't think there is any room for more concessions."
Veteran Eurosceptic Sir Bill Cash, the MP for Stone, went further, saying the Cabinet's agreement had raised questions over whether there was going to be 'a proper Brexit'.
"There are a lot of questions in here, there is a lot of unhappiness, there is a great deal of concern that we are saying that we leave – it's not 'to be or not to be' it's 'to leave or not to leave'," he said.
"The question is how do you leave and is this going to be a proper Brexit? There will be a massive discussion about all this."
The full 120-page document detailing the Cabinet's proposals is due to be published on Thursday.
