British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves parliament in Westminster, London, March 27 2019. Picture: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP
“I encourage all MPs to support it and ensure that we leave the EU ... giving people and businesses the certainty they need,” she told MPs. “ is new, substantially different and in conformity,” he said of the deal to be put to MPs on Friday’s vote, which will only cover the main withdrawal agreement in May’s plan and not an accompanying political declaration for future EU relations. Any failure by MPs to pass the pact that was signed off in 2018 by May and the 27 EU leaders could result in a feared “no-deal Brexit” scenario on April 12.
“I know there is a desire for a new approach — and new leadership — in the second phase of the Brexit negotiations and I won’t stand in the way of that,” May told a packed meeting of party members. Former foreign minister Boris Johnson said he would now back the premier “on behalf of the 17.4-million people who voted for Brexit” in the deeply divisive 2016 referendum.
May’s position was undermined further when her allies in Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party said they would continue to oppose the deal.
She is so fucked..
She'll be sent back again, to think again. As the Scots would sing