![The cabinet meeting at Chequers lasted nearly 12 hours [Joel Rouse/Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2018/7/7/a120fae146474eaa842c008f2ed7d585_18.jpg "Theresa May secures backing from cabinet for 'soft Brexit'")
British Prime Minister Theresa May has secured approval from her cabinet to negotiate "a business-friendly" deal to leave the European Union, but drew anger from hardline 'Brexiteers' and members of the opposition over her strategy to leave the bloc.
After a marathon 12-hour meeting at her Chequers residence on Friday, the prime minister seemed to have persuaded the most vocal Brexit campaigners in her cabinet to back plans for a new UK-EU agreement.
In a statement released late in the evening, she said the 26 cabinet members in attendance reached a "collective" agreement that would see the UK agree to negotiate a "common rulebook for all goods" in a combined customs territory.
May said her cabinet also agreed to negotiate for regulations for industrial and agri-food goods, to end the free movement of people, the supremacy of the European court and "vast" payments to the bloc.
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