Will hard Brexit be stopped? Anti-Brexit MPs 'fight tirelessly' for soft Brexit

Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform (CER), has argued that the hung parliament result boosts “the chances of a ‘softer’ Brexit”. Mr Grant said: “The election took away May’s majority, greatly weakening her, and the new Parliament seems unlikely to pass the legislation required for a hard Brexit.” 
He said just a handful of pro-Tory MPs could defeat the Government if they joined opposition MPs in voting against one of the eight pieces of Brexit legislation. He warned that the Prime Minister is likely to face Parliamentary defeat if she does not “reinvent herself as a soft-Brexiteer”. But he said: “At the moment it seems hard to imagine that May could commit to such a volte-face. She would have to alienate a hard core of Conservative Brexiteers, and risk splitting her party.”  

...Mr Grant said: “Many eurosceptic Conservative MPs are backing her as their best hope of achieving the hard Brexit they desire. “Some of them are letting it be known that, if she softens, they will trigger a leadership contest. “In the short term, the easiest thing for May to do is to press ahead with the Brexit that her right wing desires. But that is probably not sustainable in the long term.”