Theresa May renews efforts for deal change amid threat of Brexit delay
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says it is unacceptable that ‘we are sleepwalking into a no-deal scenario’
Sharm el-Sheikh — Prime Minister Theresa May faces a growing threat that she will be forced to delay Brexit to avoid leaving the EU without an agreement, a no-deal outcome described as “unacceptable” by one of the bloc’s leaders. With Britain’s Brexit crisis going down to the wire, May is struggling to get the kind of changes from the EU she says she needs to get her divorce deal through a divided parliament and smooth the country’s biggest policy shift in more than 40 years. In Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh for an EU and Arab League summit, she met the bloc’s leaders to try to win support for her efforts to make her deal more attractive to the British parliament, where frustrated MPs are gearing up to try wrest control of Brexit from the government. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told the BBC: “We are sleepwalking into a no-deal scenario. It’s unacceptable and your best friends have to warn you: ‘Wake up. This is real. Come to a conclusion and close the deal’.” The deadlock in parliamen...
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