{"id":370321,"date":"2018-07-21T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T11:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/brexit-crisis-prompts-calls-for-national-unity-government\/"},"modified":"2018-07-21T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T11:59:04","slug":"brexit-crisis-prompts-calls-for-national-unity-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/brexit-crisis-prompts-calls-for-national-unity-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit crisis prompts calls for national unity government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Brexit crisis prompts calls for national unity government<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Robert Stevens<br \/>\n    <br \/>21 July 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Following parliamentary votes on customs and trade legislation so close as to threaten Theresa May\u2019s premiership, calls have been made from pro-European Union (EU) sections of the Conservative Party for a national unity government to break the deadlock over Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>Divisions over Brexit cut across all existing party lines. Around 10 Labourites have consistently voted with the Tories\u2019 hard-Brexit wing, while a more substantial section of the party\u2019s MPs are united with the soft-Brexit\/pro-Remain wing of the Tories\u2014not just in seeking to preserve UK access to the EU\u2019s customs union and single market, but also ensuring that the crisis facing May\u2019s government doesn\u2019t precipitate a general election and a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p>The votes in Parliament Monday and Tuesday were on amendments authored by the Tories hard-Brexit wing to quash the soft-Brexit agreement nominally reached by May with her cabinet just days earlier. More than 10 pro-EU Tory MPs voted against the government, leaving May reliant on four pro-Brexit Labour MPs and another former Labour MP who votes as an Independent for a majority.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BBC Radio Four\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d programme Wednesday, pro-EU Tory rebel Anna Soubry called for a cross-party \u201cgovernment of national unity.\u201d She denounced the threats by party whips that failure to get the legislation through would result in a no confidence vote in May that would open the way for a Corbyn government.<\/p>\n<p>Soubry told the BBC she would support May in a vote of no confidence but, \u201cProblem is, I don\u2019t think that she\u2019s in charge any more. I\u2019ve no doubt [leader of the hard-Brexit faction and leadership contender Jacob Rees-Mogg] is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/07\/21\/brex-j21.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Brexit crisis prompts calls for national unity government By Robert Stevens 21 July 2018 Following parliamentary votes on customs and trade legislation so close as to threaten Theresa May\u2019s premiership, calls have been made from pro-European Union (EU) sections of the Conservative Party for a national unity government to break the deadlock over Brexit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}