As the total of signatories to the Revoke Article 50 petition powers on beyond the six million mark, key players in the Brexit debate are signalling the possibility of the government abandoning Brexit altogether. In Mrs May's case, it must be a last desperate ploy to turn the ERG and the Europhobic Labour front bench to accepting the deal she struck with Michel Barnier.
Nigel Dodds now asserts that separating Northern Ireland from Great Britain, no matter how temporarily, is too high a price to pay for regaining sovereignty for Westminster.
Mark Field, Conservative MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, has indicated that he would support revocation in order to "avoid paralysis". At the time of posting, over 40% of his electorate have signed the petition, a higher proportion than in any other part of the UK.
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