Decision time: Brexit deal returns to parliament

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British MPs will on Tuesday vote again on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal.

continued this weekend on some kind of legal guarantees that might persuade MPs to back the deal. May is poised to make a last-minute visit herself if needed.

But few expect any major concessions before Tuesday's vote, and the prime minister instead has sought to remind MPs of the stakes involved."Back it and the UK will leave the European Union. Reject it and no one knows what will happen," she said. "We may not leave the EU for many months. We may leave without the protections that the deal provides. We may never leave at all."forced May to agree that, if her deal is defeated again, MPs will be able to vote on both a"no deal" option or a delay to Brexit this week.Speaking in Grimsby, a North Sea fishing port that voted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum, May asked Brussels for"one more push" to get an agreement.

"The decisions that the European Union makes over the next few days will have a big impact on the outcome of the vote," she said.

 

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