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Theresa May has announced a £1.6bn fund for left-behind towns. Will it be enough to persuade Labour MPs to back her Brexit deal?

Analysis: The PM hoped her proposal would find favour but, as Ashley Cowburn explains, some MPs are unimpressed

Monday 04 March 2019 18:36 GMT
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Can the PM find a way to get her EU withdrawal deal through the Commons?
Can the PM find a way to get her EU withdrawal deal through the Commons? (AP)

Just days before the 2017 snap election, Theresa May infamously told an NHS worker who enquired about a pay rise that "there isn't a magic money tree that we can shake that suddenly provides for everything that people want".

On multiple occasions since then the prime minister seems to have located said tree during times of political danger.

She did so just days after her election gamble failed, finding £1bn in the government coffers for a supply and confidence arrangement with the Democratic Unionist Party.

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