price increases moderate voices have long urged compromise as the only sensible solutionbut by adopting the language of her partys euroskeptic right wing for so long mrs may ran the risk of a lastminute explosionfor brexiteers this deal has less to do with practical consequences than with passion and principle mrs mays adamant words made them bolder if they feel they have been tricked she could pay the price ellen barrylooking for certainty business leaders arent sure theyve found itcorporate britain has so far shown a mixed response to the brexit plan business leaders want a stable predictable environment and are divided on whether the proposed deal can provide itbusinesses that crave certainty and detail will have heard very little in recent days to make them feel they can now relax james stewart the head of brexit at the consulting firm kpmg told bloomberg newshelen dickinson the chief executive of the british retail consortium said in an emailed statement this is a welcome step towards a deal as retailers urgently need certainty as we approach the date of the uks departure from the euthe financial times reported that some business leaders were invited to downing street on tuesday as mrs may briefed her cabinet on the proposed dealit looks to me this is the only deal in town jrgen maier the chief executive of siemens uk told reuters i think it is better to get behind it maybe fine tune it a little bit and make it work jamie condliffethe family alliances and splits behind the brexit dramathe morning news shows were full of lawmakers promising that the draft deal was dead on arrival but one indicator to the contrary came from an unlikely quarter sarah vine who writes a column in the daily mail responded to the bluster with a sardonic eyeroll remarking on twitter on the whole quite a lot of willy waving going on this morning brexitdealto understand why ms vines throwaway line matters one must understand the incestuous nature of british politics in general and the brexit drama in particularread about the clubby oldschool world of britains conservative upper echelonsaside from being a columnist for a powerful probrexit tabloid ms vine is married to michael gove a leading brexiteer and member of prime minister theresa mays cabinet and her remark seemed like confirmation that he would support the deal propelling it toward a parliament voteit was another reminder that family ties and conflicts are a central organizing principle of britains elitelast week jo johnson who opposed brexit resigned from the cabinet rather than back the compromise deal which he warned would lead to vassalagehis older brother boris johnson left the cabinet over the compromise deal but for the opposite reason he is a standardbearer of the conservatives hard brexit factiontheir sister rachel johnson a daily mail columnist left the conservative party in 2017 because she opposed brexit their brother leo johnson opposes brexit and supports a second referendumafter a complicated flurry of intrafamily retweeting ms johnson