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Good morning.

From the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Tuesday, March 12th, and this is your FTE news briefing.

Today, Prime Minister Theresa May secures a revised Brexit deal ahead of a crucial Commons vote. Easyjet is stockpiling parts for its

aircraft in Europe in case of a no-deal Brexit. U.S. executives and officials

threaten to stay away from Russia's economic forum, and U.S. President

Donald Trump's proposed budget sets up another potential government shutdown.

Then the F.T.'s Patty Waldmeyer explains what two recent airline crashes mean for Boeing. I'm Eric Krepky and here's the news

you need to start your day.

This is Chim Picard, the chief political correspondent for the FT in London.

And what happened last night, Monday evening is that Mrs. May flew out to Strasbourg for

last-ditch talks with Jean-Claude Juncker from the European Commission

and they managed to announce concessions which Mrs May hopes will reassure some of the many Eurosceptics in her Conservative Party who've

been holding out against this Brexit withdrawal agreement.

Details were just coming out late last night. They were released at about 11 PM and they stopped

short of what lots of Eurosceptic Conservative MPs were hoping for, which was a rewrite of the

withdrawal agreement, but instead there's what ministers are calling a legally binding

extra piece of documentation saying that Britain would be able to in some circumstances get out of the Irish backstop which has been

causing angst among many Conservative MPs because they fear it can mean Britain locked into

parts of the European Union forever.

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