Ministers told The Independent a new ballot featured in the prime minister's thinking, with her likely to have one final attempt to push her Brexit deal through the Commons next week. The EU's proposed "backstop" arrangement, contained in the Brexit deal rejected three times by the British Parliament, is aimed at preventing the need for infrastructure and visible checks on the frontier by keeping the United Kingdom in a customs union with the bloc until a replacement solution is found.
"At the moment moderate Nationalist opinion in Northern Ireland is reconciled to its position as part of the United Kingdom".
In a statement Mr Dodds said: "The Democratic Unionist Party has consistently and repeatedly indicated that we could not support the Withdrawal Agreement because of the construction of the backstop".
The DUP believes binding Northern Ireland to single market rules would create a regulatory border between the region and the rest of the United Kingdom - a move, it contends, that would undermine the constitutional integrity of the Union.
Brexiteer Nigel Dodds urged the Government to return to Brussels to demand changes that would make the border backstop acceptable to Parliament.
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He also raised the future of Northern Ireland under such a scenario. "The Government must use the remaining time to deal with widely held concerns across the House of Commons".
He said: "I don't think there is any way that a Prime Minister of this country with that very big mandate from the referendum and given what both main parties said in the general election, can walk away from Brexit".
"But instead we have become bogged down in a process, but that process has a Withdrawal Agreement with a backstop that will cause damage to the United Kingdom, and for us that is the critical point".
After trying to remain above the Brexit fray since negotiations between the United Kingdom and European Union began nearly two years ago, Merkel is becoming much more active, as the threat of no-deal looms. Minister McEntee said both meetings will involve discussions on the significance of a no-deal Brexit for the island of Ireland and both leaders will want to hear the Taoiseach's proposals for such a scenario.
Mr Rees-Mogg, the European Research Group (ERG) chairman, had indicated that he was ready to back the deal, arguing it was preferable to no Brexit.
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