May tries to woo Brexit MPs with Irish backstop 'parliamentary lock' .

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Theresa May has stepped up last-ditch efforts to try to win over Brexit-backing MPs after government legal advice warned the Irish backstop could leave the UK trapped in "Protracted and repeated rounds of negotiations" for years to come.

Brexiters immediately rejected one idea mooted by Downing Street, of promising a "Parliamentary lock" - giving MPs a vote before the backstop could be implemented.

With just six days to go until the vote on her controversial deal, which May is expected to lose heavily, Downing Street confirmed the prime minister was keen to find ways to offer MPs extra reassurance about the backstop, in the hope they will support her.

If MPs reject the deal, there are seven possible paths the country could go down next.

A new leader then tries to assemble a majority behind a tweaked deal.

May calls a general electionMay could choose to take the ultimate gamble and hope that voters would back her deal, over the heads of squabbling MPs. Labour tries to force an electionThe opposition tables a vote of no confidence.

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