PM's war on 'death cult' Tories: Vote down Brexit deal again and you’ll get customs union or second referendum, hardliners are warned

Theresa May was last night given a boost in her knife-edge battle to secure MPs’ support for her Brexit deal when the Tories’ powerful ‘king-maker’ signalled he was ready to drop his opposition to it.

The intervention from Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the party’s backbench 1922 Committee, comes amid growing confidence in Downing Street that opposition to her deal is starting to crumble ahead of the critical Commons vote on March 12.

No 10 believes the prospect of MPs voting to delay or overturn Brexit if the deal is voted down has reduced the number of diehard opponents to between 15 and 25 – a group dubbed the ‘death cult’ by one pro-May MP.

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Ms Truss told the BBC: 'I think it would be an absolute disaster if we had a second referendum after people voted so clearly to leave the European Union.

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