Theresa May has been warned she faces another defeat over her Brexit deal after the Government confirmed it will bring forward the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB).
It comes after Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn held fresh talks on Tuesday evening.
The DUP are threatening to revoke their support unless Northern Ireland backstop measures are scrapped.
Its Westminster leader Nigel Dodds asked “what has changed” from the deal. It has already been rejected three times by MPs.
“Unless she can demonstrate something new that addresses the problem of the backstop then it is highly likely her deal will go down to defeat once again.”
Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay admitted the deal would be “dead” if MPs rejected it again.
Labour will oppose the WAB unless a cross-party deal is reached with the Government.
International Trade Secretary Dr. Liam Fox has told Eurosceptics they risk stopping Brexit if they don’t back the legislation.
He added that a failure to support the May’s new plan could lead to a no-deal Brexit or the revocation of Article 50, cancelling the whole process.
“There will be an opportunity for MPs to decide, after local and European elections, whether they want to vote for Brexit or not,” he told the Institute for Government in London.
“I think MPs will need to look and see whether they want to continue down a path that, inexorably I think, takes us to either the potential of revocation of Article 50 or leaving without a deal, and ask if that’s the best course, either democratically or economically.”
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Theresa May has been warned she faces another defeat over her Brexit deal after the Government confirmed it will bring forward the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB).
It comes after Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn held fresh talks on Tuesday evening.
The DUP are threatening to revoke their support unless Northern Ireland backstop measures are scrapped.
Its Westminster leader Nigel Dodds asked “what has changed” from the deal. It has already been rejected three times by MPs.
“Unless she can demonstrate something new that addresses the problem of the backstop then it is highly likely her deal will go down to defeat once again.”
Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay admitted the deal would be “dead” if MPs rejected it again.
Labour will oppose the WAB unless a cross-party deal is reached with the Government.
International Trade Secretary Dr. Liam Fox has told Eurosceptics they risk stopping Brexit if they don’t back the legislation.
He added that a failure to support the May’s new plan could lead to a no-deal Brexit or the revocation of Article 50, cancelling the whole process.
“There will be an opportunity for MPs to decide, after local and European elections, whether they want to vote for Brexit or not,” he told the Institute for Government in London.
“I think MPs will need to look and see whether they want to continue down a path that, inexorably I think, takes us to either the potential of revocation of Article 50 or leaving without a deal, and ask if that’s the best course, either democratically or economically.”
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