{"id":393564,"date":"2019-01-21T00:36:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T23:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/factional-warfare-hots-up-after-collapse-of-mays-european-union-brexit-deal\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T00:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T23:36:55","slug":"factional-warfare-hots-up-after-collapse-of-mays-european-union-brexit-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/factional-warfare-hots-up-after-collapse-of-mays-european-union-brexit-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Factional warfare hots up after collapse of May\u2019s European Union Brexit deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Factional warfare hots up after collapse of May\u2019s European Union Brexit deal<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Robert Stevens<br \/>\n    <br \/>19 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The pro-Remain wing of Britain\u2019s ruling elite were convinced that their moment of triumph had come with the rejection Tuesday of Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s deal for leaving the European Union (EU) and the failure Wednesday of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s vote of no confidence on the Conservative government.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the Blairite wing of the Labour Party, they calculated that the decks would now be cleared for them to campaign for a second \u201cPeople\u2019s Vote\u201d to overturn the 2016 referendum result in favour of leaving the EU.<\/p>\n<p>But no such clear-cut scenario for exiting the Brexit crisis exists. Instead the factional warfare that May sought to manage in her own party in the hope of securing at least a \u201csoft Brexit\u201d\u2014maintaining tariff-free access to Europe\u2019s markets\u2014has erupted with renewed force. In addition, divisions within the Labour Party over Brexit itself and the advisability of unequivocally backing a second referendum, which Corbyn also tried to manage with his policy of studied ambiguity, have also been brought to centre stage.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign for a \u201cPeople\u2019s Vote\u201d stepped up a gear, with Tony Blair himself demanding that Corbyn enter crisis talks with May and abandon his pre-condition of her ruling out a \u201cno-deal\u201d Brexit\u2014something she is unable to do without completely alienating her \u201cBrexiteer\u201d wing and Northern Ireland\u2019s Democratic Unionist Party, which she relies on the support of its 10 MPs for a majority in Parliament. Corbyn\u2019s positioning Labour for a possible fresh vote of no-confidence\u2014after May\u2019s \u201cPlan B\u201d deal is presented to Parliament Monday\u2014and his proposal to then seek a vote on his own Brexit&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/19\/brex-j19.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Factional warfare hots up after collapse of May\u2019s European Union Brexit deal By Robert Stevens 19 January 2019 The pro-Remain wing of Britain\u2019s ruling elite were convinced that their moment of triumph had come with the rejection Tuesday of Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s deal for leaving the European Union (EU) and the failure Wednesday [&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-393564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}