{"id":401885,"date":"2019-03-29T21:37:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T20:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-lawmakers-reject-brexit-deal-for-third-time\/"},"modified":"2019-03-29T21:37:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T20:37:32","slug":"presstv-uk-lawmakers-reject-brexit-deal-for-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-lawmakers-reject-brexit-deal-for-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK lawmakers reject Brexit deal for third time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>British MPs on Friday rejected Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s EU divorce deal for a third time, opening the way for a long delay to Brexit &#8212; or a chaotic &#8220;no deal&#8221; withdrawal in two weeks.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The pound sank as lawmakers defied May&#8217;s plea to end the deadlock that has plunged Britain into a deep political crisis, defeating her withdrawal agreement by 344 votes to 286.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">It is yet another blow to a prime minister who has all but lost control of her government and the Brexit process &#8212; particularly after she offered to quit if MPs backed the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Britain had been due to leave the EU on Friday, the long-heralded March 29 &#8220;Independence Day&#8221;, but faced with deadlock in parliament, May asked European leaders last week for a little more time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">She now faces having to return in the coming days to explain what happens next, after EU Council President Donald Tusk immediately called a Brussels summit for April 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The EU has set a deadline for April 12 for a&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/03\/29\/592146\/British-parliament-Theresa-May-Brexit-deal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British MPs on Friday rejected Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s EU divorce deal for a third time, opening the way for a long delay to Brexit &#8212; or a chaotic &#8220;no deal&#8221; withdrawal in two weeks. The pound sank as lawmakers defied May&#8217;s plea to end the deadlock that has plunged Britain into a deep political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401885","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\/401885","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}