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Theresa May in last-ditch bid to win crucial Brexit vote today

AP
Published : Jan 15, 2019, 5:54 am IST
Updated : Jan 15, 2019, 5:54 am IST

Britain and the EU reached a hard-won divorce deal in November, but the agreement has run aground in the UK Parliament.

British Prime Minister Theresa May (Photo: AFP)
 British Prime Minister Theresa May (Photo: AFP)

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May offered both a promise on workers’ rights and a reassuring letter from European Union leaders on Monday as she implored British legislators to support her floundering Brexit deal.

But the British leader had few concrete measures up her sleeve a day before a vote in Parliament which looks likely to see her Brexit deal rejected. A defeat on Tuesday would throw Brexit plans into disarray just weeks before the UK is due to leave the bloc on March 29.

Ms May warned that the only alternatives to her agreement were an economically damaging, chaotic “no-deal” exit from the EU or a halt to Britain’s departure that would defy British voters’ decision in 2016 to leave the bloc.

In a speech Monday at a ceramics factory in the central England city of Stoke-on-Trent, Ms May said “people’s faith in the democratic process and their politicians would suffer catastrophic harm” if her deal is rejected and Brexit was abandoned.

Having Britain leave the EU without a deal “would cause turbulence  for our economy, create barriers to security cooperation and disrupt people’s daily lives,” she said.

“The only deal on the table is the one (members of Parliament) will vote on Tuesday night,” Ms May said.

Britain and the EU reached a hard-won divorce deal in November, but the agreement has run aground in the UK Parliament. Ms May postponed a vote on the deal in December to avoid a resounding defeat, and there are few signs the deal has picked up much support since then.

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