“Plan A” dons a false moustache

Theresa May’s deal is back on the table. Will it be more appetising the second time? Emily Hohler reports.

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May: Brexit deal not dead
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A week after she suffered the "biggest parliamentary defeat of modern times" and for all her "fine words about cross-party engagement", Prime Minister Theresa May is still "refusing to budge" over her Brexit withdrawal bill, says Michael Deacon in The Daily Telegraph. Her "tantalisingly billed" Plan B turned out to be "Plan A in a false moustache".

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.