With May’s monumental defeat, no end in sight for Brexit
Jan 15, 2019
3 minutes
The result of Tuesday’s vote in Parliament on Prime Minister Theresa May’s terms of departure from the European Union was ultimately not a surprise. Her minority government is deeply divided over Brexit and Ms. May’s own leadership.
But the scale of defeat that her plan suffered in Parliament – an emphatic 432 against to 202 for – has brought new uncertainty to a process meant to be coming to an end in just over 70 days’ time.
It has even thrown the survival of May’s government into question; The opposition Labour Party immediately filed a no-confidence
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