Andrea Jenkyns’s #ChuckChequers tweet

Conservative MP for Morley and Outwood

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go down fighting

Andrea Jenkyns urged Brexit supporters to oppose Theresa May’s Chequers plan and used the hashtags #StandUp4Brexit and #ChuckChequers.

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Why it mattered

The tweet captured the pressure on May from within her own party. Its language about going down fighting also drew mockery from people who read it as an unusually combative way to describe trade negotiations.

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