Fresh Brexit vote could take place NEXT WEEK as PM tries to avoid EU election drubbing
Sir Graham Brady said the PM's plan is for a fresh vote ahead of the 23 May elections
A FRESH Brexit vote could take place as early as next week as Theresa May desperately tries to avoid a pummelling in the European election polls.
Sir Graham Brady said this evening he thinks the Government will bring back the Brexit bill to MPs before the European Parliament elections on May 23.
But the powerful boss of the 1922 backbench committee added that the PM needed to amend the political declaration to remove the need for the hated Northern Ireland backstop.
The PM has said it would be "unacceptable" to take part in the elections, more than three years after Britain voted to leave the EU.
But yesterday ministers admitted it was too late and there was no choice but to hold them.
The PM's still hoping she can pass a Brexit deal with the help of Jeremy Corbyn.
She was rumoured to have offered them a customs union, but insiders said they still weren't convinced she was compromising enough.
Tories are fuming with the idea she could do a deal with Mr Corbyn, and have said a soft Brexit agreement wouldn't truly deliver the result of the referendum.
However, Mrs May's deal has already been rejected by MPs three times in the Commons.
Last night No10 said talks were constructive but Labour sources said the two sides were still miles apart.
If May can't get an agreement with Labour to pass a deal she's said she will return to the Commons for a series of votes on what to do next.
Brexit is now extended until October so Britain can figure out a way to end the deadlock.
Sir Graham also said there was no more "public clarity" about when Mrs May would step down.
She's under increasing pressure to step aside and let someone else take charge as she's failed to deliver Brexit.
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Last week's drubbing in the local elections piled even more pressure on her to name a date she will quit now.
Tory Brexiteer Andrea Jenkyn told her to her face in PMQs today the time had come to go.
But she insisted it wasn't about her and she would stand down when she'd delivered the first phase of Brexit.
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