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Theresa May Is Running Out of Options

After she canceled a key Brexit vote, few possibilities remain: no confidence, no deal, or no Brexit at all.
Source: Phil Noble / Reuters

LONDON—British Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Monday that she was postponing a scheduled parliamentary vote on her proposed Brexit deal. The 11th-hour decision follows weeks of speculation that the agreement was doomed to suffer an overwhelming defeat at the hands of British lawmakers in its current form.

What remains unclear is how long the vote will be delayed and, with the end of March approaching, when Britain is due to leave the European Union, what the prime minister can do to salvage her deal.

Facing an for her bill in Parliament, May will return to Brussels with the hopes of renegotiating, in particular the

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