Tory infighting over Brexit: who won this week?

Theresa May’s Chequers deal hangs by a thread after another week of Conservative party clashes

Was this the week when Tory Brexiters overplayed their hand?

It is been a difficult week for the hard Brexit-backing European Research Group. A promised policy paper on the “Brexit dividend” had to be ditched after an embarrassing leak that contained unlikely ideas such as developing a Star Wars-style defence system against incoming nuclear missiles and establishing an expeditionary force to deal with Falklands-style attacks.

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