JUST IN: UK lawmakers have rejected Boris Johnson's planned timetable for the rest of the week. Boris Johnson said earlier he would scrap his Brexit deal and push for a snap general election if this happened.
Analysis from CNN's Luke McGee
Cast your mind back to 2017: The Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, you'll recall, agreed to support Theresa May's minority government in exchange for an extra £1bn dollars for Northern Ireland. Why? Because of something called the backstop, which sought to avoid the need for either a border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland or between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. The DUP's concern was that the backstop tied Northern Ireland to the EU indefinitely and left it with no say over its future.Hardline Conservative Brexiteers in London supported the DUP position at the time, saying that they would not sell out the Union.
As the debate in the chamber draws nearer to its close, DUP MPs have been arguing with Conservative Brexiteers who they believe have thrown them under the bus for supporting Johnson.
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