The House of Commons vote shortly before midnight Wednesday to block a no-deal divorce destroyed the dream of some of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party members for a clean break with the bloc as soon as next week. The bill — which May herself opposed — won by just a single vote and will now move to the upper chamber of Parliament to complete its progress on Thursday.
Taken together, May’s overture to Corbyn and the parliamentary result marked a bad day for staunch Brexit backers. Earlier Wednesday, two ministers resigned from May’s government in protest at her offer to work with the “Marxist” Labour leader. The pound strengthened as much as 0.2 percent to $1.3181 in early Asian trading Thursday, holding within its Wednesday trading range.
On Wednesday, May was attacked by pro-Brexit members of her own party for opening the door to Corbyn’s vision of a so-called soft Brexit. One of the two ministers who quit, Nigel Adams, wrote that the government was failing to deliver the “Brexit people voted for” and increasing the risk of the “calamity of a Corbyn government.”
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