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Theresa May was tonight accused of secretly lining up a Brexit deal behind the backs of her Cabinet after a leaked memo revealed detailed plans for selling the deal to the public. A three-week strategy leading up to a parliamentary vote includes daily “themed” announcements, a major speech by the Prime Minister and a televised interview with David Dimbleby. The document, which was seen by the BBC and appears to have been written in the past week, proposes a vote on the deal on Nov 27, adding to suspicions from ministers that Mrs May, desperate for a deal before Christmas, was rushing into an agreement with Brussels. It came after a Cabinet meeting at which senior ministers warned Mrs May not to be panicked into signing a deal that would give Brussels the power to keep Britain in an EU customs union.
The Cabinet was told the Brexit negotiations had moved a “major step” forward and Brussels was willing to discuss ways of ending the impasse over the Irish border. But Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, and Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary, were among those who urged caution over any solution that would prevent Britain from unilaterally ending any “backstop” arrangement over Northern Ireland. Brexiteers said the leaked memo added to suspicions that Mrs May had already agreed a deal and that an ongoing row over Irish border had been “fabricated” for appearances’ sake.
A government spokesman claimed the document, which appeared to have been drawn up by an official in the Brexit department, “doesn’t represent the Government’s thinking”. The memo assumed a proposed deal would be put to the Cabinet and that Dominic Raab, the Brexit Secretary, would announce “a moment of decisive progress” on Thursday. Mrs May would then claim the Government had “delivered on the referendum” in a speech at the CBI on Nov 19, the same day Mr Raab would announce the proposed deal to Parliament.
World leaders, including Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, would be lined up to tweet support for the deal, followed by a week of themed media events, including a visit by Mrs May to Northern Ireland on Nov 24, the day the DUP holds its conference in Belfast. The memo says Parliament’s “meaningful vote” on the deal would be held on Nov 27, with MPs told in capital letters: “Historic moment, put your own interests aside, put the country’s interests first and back this deal.”