PressTV-Britain’s May wins crucial customs union vote

British Prime Minister Theresa May has narrowly avoided a defeat in parliament over post-Brexit customs arrangements, as she struggles to drum up support and unify her divided party around her strategy for separation from the European Union (EU).

May won approval from the parliament by a margin of just six votes with 307-301 on Tuesday, surviving an attempt by pro-EU conservative lawmakers to change her post-Brexit trade strategy and keep London in a customs union with Brussels if a trade deal is not agreed by January 2019.

The rejected amendment to the trade bill said it should be the objective of the government to establish a frictionless free trade area for goods between Britain and the 28-member bloc after Brexit.

UK Trade Minister Liam Fox hailed May’s victory at the parliament and said the government’s future trade bill was “an important bill providing continuity and stability.”

“It will be the confident first step that the UK takes…

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