Johnson implored legislators to ratify the deal he struck this week with the bloc's 27 other leaders. He said members of the House of Commons should “come together as democrats to end this debilitating feud” over Brexit, which has bitterly divided the country since British voters narrowly chose in a 2016 vote to leave the EU.
One of the lawmakers behind the measure, Oliver Letwin, said it would prevent the U.K. from leaving at the end of the month “by mistake, if something goes wrong during the passage of the implementing legislation.” The prime minister signalled that he would do that, but under duress. He is compelled by law to ask for the extension, but he said “it cannot change my judgment that further delay is pointless, expensive and deeply corrosive of public trust.”“There is very little appetite among our friends in the EU for this business to be protracted by one extra day,” Johnson said. “They have had three and a half years of this debate.
The EU's budget commissioner, Guenther Oettinger, was quoted Saturday as telling Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper that if British lawmakers reject Johnson's deal, the U.K. is likely to crash out of the bloc with no deal.“It would cause further delay when our constituents and our businesses want an end to uncertainty and are calling for us to get this done,” he said.
“I fervently believe that we should remain in the EU,” said Bruce Nicole, an Anglican vicar from Camberley, south of London, who attended the protest. “I am British but I am also European. I don't believe the current deal offers any benefits at all.” The result looks set to be close, although Johnson has had some success winning over both hard-core Conservative Brexiteers and a handful of opposition Labour lawmakers who represent pro-Brexit parts of the country.
Can't they see the people don't want Brexit and another referendum should be done?
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