Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 16 Oct 2018

1. May to rally cabinet ahead of EU meeting

Theresa May is making a last-ditch bid to win over senior ministers to her version of Brexit, 24 hours before a crunch meeting with EU leaders in Brussels. A group of pro-Brexit ministers met last night over pizza in the House of Commons to discuss the way forward. They are calling for the prime minister to put a time limit on her “backstop” position on the Irish border, the BBC reports.

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