Boris Johnson will on Monday make a new attempt to win parliament’s backing for his Brexit deal, amid growing confidence that he can overcome a series of setbacks at the weekend and now has the backing of the 320 MPs needed for victory.
Mr Johnson insists he can still deliver Brexit on October 31, in spite of losing a key vote on Saturday and being forced to write to the EU seeking a three-month delay to the Article 50 exit process.
“We appear to have the numbers to get it through,” Dominic Raab, foreign secretary, told the BBC. Calculations by the Financial Times suggests Mr Johnson is on course to win by a majority of five, but the result is on a knife-edge.