Eight Tories Ready to Rebel on Customs Union: Brexit Update

Fox said a customs union between the U.K. and European Union would be a "betrayal" of those who voted for Brexit.Source: Bloomberg

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By Tim Ross, Ian Wishart, and Kitty Donaldson

February 27, 2018 at 10:02 AM UTC

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February 27, 2018 at 2:27 PM UTC

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The European Union will publish a draft Brexit withdrawal treaty on Wednesday and it’s set to be explosive: it will ignore Theresa May’s recent requests to make the transition longer and risks prompting a domestic crisis over the sensitive issue of the Irish border.

There are still some holes to fill in, but the 100-page document will become the basis of the withdrawal deal that both sides want completed by the end of the year.