Opponents eye customs union amendment to derail Boris Johnson
Oliver Wright, Policy Editor | Kate Devlin, Chief Political Correspondent
Tuesday October 22 2019, 12.01am, The Times
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Opponents of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal are preparing to table a series of wrecking amendments to sabotage his EU withdrawal legislation.
Opposition parties have held informal talks about which amendments have the best chance of uniting soft Brexiteers with supporters of a second referendum to defeat the government. They hope that the amendments will scupper the prime minister's chances of getting the deal approved by the House of Commons at the Withdrawal Agreement Bill's third reading this week.
Attention is understood to be focused on two main areas of the withdrawal legislation, which was finally published by the government last night. The first would be to mandate the prime minister to negotiate a customs union with the EU as part of Britain's long-term relationship with