Tag: Theresa May

• Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Following Parliament Brexit deadlock, Mrs. May deal is back for a third attempt

  

  Efforts to persuade MPs to back Theresa May's Brexit deal will continue on Thursday, a day after she promised to quit as PM if it was approved. Her pledge brought some on-side, such as ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson.

• Wednesday, March 27th 2019 - 08:27 UTC

  Poll shows 80% of UK think government has handled Brexit negotiations badly

  

  More than 80% of the country think the British government has handled the Brexit negotiations badly, a new poll suggests. A survey by NatCen Social Research found that just 7% of Britons thought ministers had done a good job in the talks, while 81% said they were handling them badly.

• Wednesday, March 27th 2019 - 08:19 UTC

  Brexit's quandary: Euro-skeptics could still support Mrs. May's deal

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May will address her Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday, possibly to set out a timetable for her departure in a last throw of the dice to win support for her twice-rejected Brexit deal in parliament. At her weakest after parliament on Monday seized control of Brexit, May has yet to give up hope of winning approval for her deal to leave the European Union, which she says is the only way of ensuring an orderly exit that will protect the economy.

• Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:08 UTC

  Commons takes control to try and find a majority Brexit option; PM May remains defiant

  

  MPs have voted to take control of Commons business in an unprecedented move to try to find a majority for any Brexit option. The government was defeated by 329 votes to 302 on the cross-party amendment, a majority of 27. It means MPs will get a series of votes on Wednesday to find out what kind of Brexit they will support.

• Monday, March 25th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  UK cabinet in state of disarray: PM Theresa May's post on the line

  

  Two British ministers touted as a potential caretaker PM in reports of a cabinet coup say they fully back Theresa May. Environment Secretary Michael Gove told reporters it was “not the time to change the captain of the ship”. And the PM's de facto deputy David Lidington insisted he was “100% behind” Mrs May.

• Sunday, March 24th 2019 - 06:11 UTC

  Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon joins the march and tells PM May “put it back to the people”

  

  First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has joined hundreds of thousands of people on a march in London to demand a second Brexit referendum. She spoke to crowds gathered at the end of a rally organizer of the “Put It To The People” campaign say more than a million people attended.

• Sunday, March 24th 2019 - 05:50 UTC

  London flooded by anti-Brexit protestors demanding a new referendum

  

  Anti-Brexit protesters flooded into central London by the hundreds of thousands on Saturday, demanding that Britain's Conservative-led government hold a new referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union. The “People's Vote March” snaked from Park Lane and other locations to converge on the U.K. Parliament, where the fate of Brexit will be decided in the coming weeks.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Theresa May not sure of a third vote on her Brexit deal next week: “there is not sufficient support”

  

  Theresa May has told MPs that a third vote on her Brexit deal may not take place next week “if it appears there is not sufficient support”. It comes after European Council President Donald Tusk said Brexit's fate was “in Britain's hands.”

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 06:30 UTC

  A petition to halt the Brexit process has passed three million signatures

  

  A petition calling on the UK Government to halt the Brexit process has passed three million signatures. The Revoke Article 50 petition has become the second most popular submitted to the Parliament website with the highest rate of sign-ups on record, according to the official Petitions Committee.

• Friday, March 22nd 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  May manages a Brexit postponement but Parliament must support her deal: “MPs have a clear choice”

  

  Theresa May will return to the UK on Friday to try and convince MPs to support her withdrawal deal after the EU agreed to postpone Brexit beyond 29 March. On Thursday night, after eight hours of talks, EU leaders offered to delay Brexit until 22 May if MPs approve Mrs May's deal next week.