ISSUE 087 - Friday 29th March 2019
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BREXIT BAFFLEMENT Theresa May vows to quit as PM if her Brexit deal passes on third try
THE BREXIT process for the UK has now totally hit the buffers despite Theresa May offering to resign early, whilst a series of indicative votes with alternative options to her deal were all voted down by MPs on Wednesday. May told Tory backbenchers that she´d quit early to help get her deal through, and though the likes
by Alex Trelinski
of Boris Johnson have now reluctantly agreed to back it, she is still way short of the numbers to get it through, including the 10 DUP MPs who repeated their opposition to it. Many MPs believe the continuing deadlock, made even more uncertain by the
prime minister’s resignation announcement, makes a general election more likely. With the Conservatives firstly needing to elect a new leader, pundits believe that the EU will have no alternative but to grant a long extension whilst the UK domestic situation is sorted out. The government had tabled a Commons motion
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enabling a debate and vote on the PM’s deal today(Friday) but as The Weekender went to press, it was unclear whether this would actually happen. Under a deadline set by the European Union, it must be passed by MPs by today at the latest if the UK is to benefit from the offer of an automatic delay to Brexit to May 22nd.