Jon Henley and Dan Roberts discuss what a new crop of Tory MPs could mean for Brexit as well as Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel’s new friendship

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With the UK general election just three weeks away, a lot of the speculation around how the outcome might affect Brexit has centred on the idea that a big majority for Theresa May might give the prime minister political leeway at home to be a bit more flexible on the terms of the UK’s departure – possibly leading to a softer Brexit.

But new research suggests the new crop of Conservative MPs are likely to be significantly more pro-Brexit than the backbenchers they are replacing – something that may put the prime minister under even greater pressure to avoid compromises with the EU27.

Plus, after the new French president, Emmanuel Macron, got along so famously with Angela Merkel at their first official meeting in Berlin this week, we’ll be asking whether what looks like a new dynamic – and a new determination – on the continent may also end up making a hard, or ‘clean’, Brexit more likely.

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