British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned that Brexit will not happen if rebel Conservative MPs, who are seeking to derail her plans for leaving the EU, do not play ball.
Writing in The Mail on Sunday, the prime minister said Commons revolts by pro- and anti-EU Tories would undercut any chances of a deal with Brussels.
“My message to the country this weekend is simple: we need to keep our eyes on the prize,” May wrote. “If we don’t, we risk ending up with no Brexit at all.”
She urged MPs to take a “practical and pragmatic” approach or face a “damaging and disorderly” Brexit.
May admitted that some MPs were worried about her plan for a “common rule book” with the bloc for goods and customs traded within what she described as a new “UK-EU free trade area.”
However, May noted she had yet to see a “workable alternative” to the proposals, accepted by the cabinet at Chequers, that would enable trade to remain as…