“The PM needs Brussels to kill off Malthouse quickly" (Image: GETTY)
The proposals, known as the Malthouse Compromise, are designed to stop the UK getting stuck an EU customs union after Brexit. This outcome could happen under the current Northern Ireland ‘backstop’, designed to stop a hard-border being placed across Ireland. However according to one Cabinet Minister the Prime Minister has privately abandoned the plan, and is just waiting for Brussels to reject it.
Speaking to The Sun they commented: “The PM needs Brussels to kill off Malthouse quickly.
“She can’t do it herself, she knows the EU has to do it for her or the European Research Group will never forgive her.
“But until that happens, she won’t be able to do the new deal that the member states want to do too now.”
The European Research Group (ERG) is an influential eurosceptic group of Tory MPs lead by Mr Rees-Mogg.
Under the current Brexit deal, approved by Theresa May, the UK will enter into a customs union with the EU if a new trading relationship can’t be established during
