BREXIT
After EU advance, May must now unite her divided cabinet
London — Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would not be derailed from leaving the EU, laying the groundwork for difficult meetings this week in which she will try to unite a divided cabinet behind her vision for post-Brexit Britain. May was applauded by EU leaders in Brussels on Friday after securing an agreement to move previously deadlocked talks forward on to the topic of trading arrangements. The progress has gone some way to easing concerns of businesses and investors who fear that Britain could crash out of the bloc without an exit deal or that May’s fragile government could collapse under the pressure of delivering Brexit. "Amid all the noise, we are getting on with the job," May wrote in the Sunday Telegraph. "My message today is very clear: we will not be derailed from this fundamental duty to deliver the democratic will of the British people." But May can expect some difficult exchanges this week when she and senior ministers discuss the so-called "end state" o...
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