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By Robert Hutton and Lucy Meakin

December 18, 2017 at 12:01 AM UTC

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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will set out her plan for how a proposed Brexit transition period will work, stoking a potential new row with the European Union as she tries to keep different factions inside the Conservative Party on her side.