Negotiations between the EU and Britain deadlocked on the eve of a crucial parliamentary vote on Theresa May’s heavily contested Brexit withdrawal agreement
British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in London on Monday. Later in the day she was expected to meet European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in a last-ditch bid to save her Brexit deal.
I don’t think Theresa May is going to pull a rabbit the size of an elephant from a top hat the way she would need to. ... I think we are heading for chaos.With 18 days to go until the March 29 deadline, when the decades-long partnership is due to officially end, news of a stalemate threw the whole future of Brexit into question.
"Maybe she still has a cunning plan, but the stakes are now too high to assume that she has this under control," said Yvette Cooper, a member of Parliament from the Labor Party who has been vehemently campaigning against a no-deal Brexit."Time is running out and we can't afford to stand back and wait."
It highlighted the depths of discord within Parliament over how to implement the results of the 2016 referendum that asked British voters if they wanted to leave, or stay in, the European Union. Even though an EU withdrawal deal was agreed to by British and EU negotiators and signed off by all 27 EU leaders in November following months of difficult negotiations, it was vehemently opposed by some British lawmakers who took exception to the so-called backstop arrangement regarding the land border on the island of Ireland.
After January’s failed vote, May promised her colleagues she would go back to Brussels and return with a revised deal that they could vote on.
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