DUP warns Theresa May of necessary Brexit changes
Dodds says Brussels reassurances not enough if PM is to win vote on withdrawal deal
Jo Churchill MP urges Commons speaker John Bercow to look at a video clip of Jeremy Corbyn as education secretary Damian Hinds, Andrew Stephenson MP, Mike Freer MP and health secretary Matt Hancock look on, on Wednesday. Photograph: UK Parliament/Mark Duffy/PA Wire
The DUP has warned Theresa May she must secure changes to the withdrawal agreement rather than reassurances about its meaning if she is to win its support for her Brexit deal in a Commons vote next month. The British prime minister has promised her backbenchers that she will win the reassurances necessary to win over the DUP ahead of the vote, which she postponed last week.
During prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, however, DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds made clear that reassurances from Brussels would not be enough.