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Theresa May urged MPs \u201cto do a patriotic thing\u201d and vote for her Brexit deal unless they want leaving the EU to take months, \u201cif ever.\u201d The last-ditch appeal comes as the Corbynites vow another confidence vote if the deal fails. <\/p>\n
The UK prime minister didn\u2019t sit idle this weekend, trying to win the hearts and minds of stubborn MPs who last week rejected the Brexit deal she agreed on with the EU.<\/p>\n
If her plan is backed before Thursday\u2019s EU summit, she would seek \u201ca short technical extension\u201d<\/em> beyond the March 29 deadline to leave the bloc, May wrote<\/a> in the Sunday Telegraph.<\/p>\n Admitting that it will not be \u201can ideal outcome,\u201d<\/em> May argued that \u201cit is something the British people would accept if it led swiftly to delivering Brexit.\u201d<\/em> Otherwise, \u201cwe will not leave the EU for many months, if ever.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n That aside, the British people face the prospect of going to the polls to elect members of the European Parliament in May \u2013 an obligation which comes with the UK\u2019s extended membership in the EU.<\/p>\n \u201cThere could be no more potent symbol of Parliament\u2019s collective political failure,\u201d<\/em> the Prime Minister wrote.<\/p>\n Last Tuesday, MPs overwhelmingly rejected<\/a> May\u2019s Brexit divorce plan. On Wednesday, they voted<\/a> against leaving the EU without a deal, and on Thursday the Parliament urged<\/a> the prime minister to ask Brussels for a delay.<\/p>\n The delay will be short if May\u2019s deal is eventually approved by Parliament and becomes law. A longer delay \u2013 which May cautioned against \u2013 could be used by UK leaders to try to negotiate a completely new deal, prolonging the Brexit saga for another year or so.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, time is running out for May\u2019s cabinet to sort the withdrawal deal out. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the opposition would force a confidence vote in her government it the deal is defeated again.<\/p>\n \u201cI think at that point a confidence motion would be appropriate. At that point we should say there has to be a general election,\u201d<\/em> he told Sky News.<\/p>\n Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Theresa May urged MPs \u201cto do a patriotic thing\u201d and vote for her Brexit deal unless they want leaving the EU to take months, \u201cif ever.\u201d The last-ditch appeal comes as the Corbynites vow another confidence vote if the deal fails. The UK prime minister didn\u2019t sit idle this weekend, trying to win the hearts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":399985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399984","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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