If May loses Tuesday’s Brexit vote, she must back a customs union or go | Simon Jenkins

A soft Brexit is the only option left for the prime minister. If she won’t back it, she should step aside

Theresa May has only one way forward tomorrow. If she loses yet another Brexit vote, she must immediately offer one she can win. She knows well what that is, as Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn has left her in no doubt. It would propose leaving the EU on 29 March, in accordance with the referendum result, but remain in Europe’s customs union. If doing so requires a suspension of article 50 of the EU...