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Boris Johnson is getting close to winning a majority for a Brexit deal

Johnson is inching towards securing the numbers he needs in parliament to force through his Brexit deal.

Conservative MPs are worried Labour could try to force through a second referendum instead of an election. Pro-Brexit MPs are coming behind backing a deal due to fears that anti-Brexit MPs will use any extension to push for another referendum. If and when he is able to agree a deal, the prime minister needs to win the support of the 28 Conservative MPs who voted consistently against Theresa May's Brexit deal, as well as the Democratic Unionist Party and probably a handful of opposition Labour MPs.

"In the last few days, there is at least hope that this toxic and crippling fog, which we have created, might just be lifting as the prime minister sketches the outline of a way forward – and I speak as someone who has been robust in my review of previous proposals, but the House must surely see that we have debated long enough," he said.

The Democratic Unionist Party, which supports Brexit and lends Johnson's minority government 11 votes in parliament, has so far been cold towards Johnson's floated plan because it could involve keeping Northern Ireland in some sort of separate customs arrangement with the EU, to which the rest of the UK was not subject.

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