Sir Keir Starmer writes in The Sunday Times that MPs approving a bad deal would be conceding to a “political hoax”

Labour will unite with MPs across parliament to stop Theresa May taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal, The Sunday Times can reveal.

Sir Keir Starmer, Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary, warns the prime minister that she will not be allowed to blackmail MPs by presenting the deal she comes back to parliament with as the only alternative to no deal.

Writing in The Sunday Times, Sir Keir claims it would be “politically unsustainable” for Mrs May to end the Brexit negotiations with no agreement and “deliver no deal without the consent of Parliament”.

“As crunch time looms, there is now the very real prospect the Prime Minister will struggle to find enough support for her deal to be formally approved by