Brexit-supporting rebels in British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservati...
LONDON - Brexit-supporting rebels in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party said on Wednesday they would vote down her European Union divorce deal when she brings it back to parliament next month.
May, who became prime minister in the chaos that followed the 2016 referendum in which Britons voted 52% to 48% to leave the EU, is under pressure from some of her own lawmakers to set a date for her departure.See more stories Asked by a committee of lawmakers from the upper house of parliament if this was “the last chance saloon” for May’s divorce deal, Barclay said: “If the House of Commons does not approve the WAB, then the Barnier deal is dead in that form.” He was referring to the EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.
An anti-Brexit protester is pictured outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain May 15, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah MckayNearly three years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU, politicians still disagree about when, how or even if the divorce will take place. A sticking point has been the Irish backstop, an insurance policy aimed at avoiding post-Brexit controls on the border between Northern Ireland and EU-member Ireland.
A majority of members of the European Research Group, a large Brexit-supporting faction in the Conservative Party, will vote against May’s deal, said Owen Paterson, a former minister.As positions harden in parliament, with many wanting to either leave the EU without a deal or to stop Brexit altogether, May has turned to the opposition Labour Party, led by veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn, to negotiate a way out of the impasse.
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