Theresa May will make a “bold offer” to MPs in a final attempt to get them to approve her Brexit deal, offering extra protections among the proposals, to win support of some Labour MPs.

The prime minister needs to secure cross-party support for her EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill, which will be voted on in June, after the  government’s talks with Labour over Brexit broke down.

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Co-op Bank approached banking giant Barclays in November about Barclays acquiring it, but the talks did not proceed beyond the exploratory stage, the Telegraph newspaper reported yesterday.

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Huawei’s chipmaking arm said it had turned its “Plan Bs into Plan As overnight” a day after the Trump administration raised the prospect of a US ban on export of parts and components to the Chinese telecoms group.