LONDON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - British lawmaker Oliver Letwin
said on Sunday that he believed Prime Minister Boris Johnson
could probably get his Brexit deal over the line.
Letwin, who derailed Johnson's plans to pass an agreement on
Saturday by putting forward an amendment which withheld approval
of the deal until formal ratification legislation has passed,
said he would propose no more amendments this week.
"I am absolutely behind the government now as long as they
continue with this bill, continue with the deal, I will support
it, I will vote for it," Letwin told BBC television. "There will
be no more Oliver Letwin amendments next week because there
don’t need to be, I am supporting the bill."
Letwin, who was kicked out of Johnson's Conservatives over
his attempts to block a no-deal exit, said with the support of
lawmakers like him he hoped the government could get the deal
across the line, adding: "I think we probably will."
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan and Paul Sandle; editing by Guy
Faulconbridge)