IT HAS been an up and down week for Theresa May. On December uth the prime minister basked as pro- and anti-Brexit Tories alike cheered the deal that she had secured on the first phase of Britain's Article 50 divorce from the European Union. But two days later, as she prepared to head back to Brussels to get an eu summit to approve the deal, Mrs May suffered her first big parliamentary defeat, when 11 of her own MPS joined the opposition to amend the EU withdrawal bill.
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