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Good morning.

From the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Friday, February 22nd, and this is your FT news briefing.

Today, Eurosceptic MPs warn they'll try to end the government if Prime Minister Theresa May delays Brexit.

Craft Heinz shares dive after the Food Group reveals an SEC subpoena over its accounting

policies and the big four accounting firms stranglehold over major car companies is

under threat. Then the FT Sam Fleming explains how Federal Reserve

policymakers are rethinking their economic strategy.

I'm Eric Krupky, and here's the news you need to start your day.

Eurosceptic Conservative MPs have warned they'll seek to end the UK government

if Prime Minister Theresa May delays the UK's departure from the EU.

Members of the European Research Group of Conservative MPs said that if Britain's exit was pushed back, they'd no longer vote for government legislation.

That would paralyze Mrs May's administration.

The group's members fear that next Wednesday MPs could back a proposal by former Labor Minister Yvette Cooper.

The proposal would stop a no-deal Brexit by extending Article 50, the EU process under which

the UK is meant to leave the block on March 29th.

Losing the support of these MPs would cause problems for Mrs. May.

Her Commons working majority was reduced to nine this week

when three Eurofile MPs quit the Conservative Party.

Mrs May is trying to get the EU to agree to changes to the so-called Irish backstop plan

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