{"id":394656,"date":"2019-01-30T20:45:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uks-may-fends-off-demands-to-delay-brexit-or-rule-out-no-deal\/"},"modified":"2019-01-30T20:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:45:05","slug":"uks-may-fends-off-demands-to-delay-brexit-or-rule-out-no-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uks-may-fends-off-demands-to-delay-brexit-or-rule-out-no-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s May fends off demands to delay Brexit or rule out \u201cno deal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK\u2019s May fends off demands to delay Brexit or rule out \u201cno deal\u201d<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden<br \/>\n    <br \/>30 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>With less than two months to go before Britain\u2019s scheduled exit from the European Union (EU), Prime Minister Theresa May swung most of her hard Brexit wing and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) behind her with a promise to seek renegotiation of the Irish backstop.<\/p>\n<p>This and divisions within the Labour Party over either delaying Brexit or seeking a second referendum, or both, gave the day to the Conservative government though this could prove to be a pyrrhic and very short-lived victory.<\/p>\n<p>May suffered an initial cross-party rejection of the deal she negotiated with the EU by a record majority of 230 on January 15, as hard-Brexit Tories and the DUP\u2019s 10 MPs voted with the opposition because they disagreed with proposals for Northern Ireland to remain in a de facto customs union with the EU to prevent the return of a hard border with the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>May responded by promising to seek further concessions and assurances from the EU and scheduling yesterday\u2019s vote on any modified agreement. However, May was unable to secure any substantial change, leaving MPs to back a short technical motion that they had considered last week\u2019s statement. Attention therefore focused on seven amendments to the motion chosen to go forward to votes by House of Commons speaker John Bercow.<\/p>\n<p>Labour\u2019s official amendment advancing its Brexit policy\u2014seeking to avoid a \u201cno deal\u201d and maintain some form of customs union with the EU\u2014was bound to fail as no Tory would vote for it.<\/p>\n<p>This left the most important vote for Labour the one proposed by Blairite Labour MP Yvette Cooper calling for a mandatory extension of Article 50 if May failed to secure a deal by late&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/30\/brex-j30.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK\u2019s May fends off demands to delay Brexit or rule out \u201cno deal\u201d By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden 30 January 2019 With less than two months to go before Britain\u2019s scheduled exit from the European Union (EU), Prime Minister Theresa May swung most of her hard Brexit wing and the Democratic Unionist Party [&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-394656","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\/394656","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=394656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}