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The deal would end the control of the unelected, neoliberal commissioners and anti-worker European Court of Justice, writes DOUG NICHOLLS

THE 27 countries in the EU support the deal negotiated by Britain to leave in an orderly manner.
The EU’s most doting supporters are now opposing their masters and, by gearing up to vote the deal down on Saturday, prove what we knew all along, that they have no loyalty to either their own country or their beloved Brussels.
Whatever way you cut it, any parliamentary manoeuvre to vote against the deal is playing politics, and playing politics with potentially dangerous consequences.
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