London — Prime Minister Theresa May could face trouble getting her Brexit deal approved by the British parliament before exit day unless she changes her proposals, the head of an influential group of pro-Brexit legislators said in an interview published on Sunday. Jacob Rees-Mogg, chair of the European Research Group, a faction within May’s Conservative Party, is strongly opposed to the government’s so-called Chequers plan for Brexit and favours a clean break with the bloc on March 29 2019. "If she sticks with Chequers, she will find she has a block of votes against her in the House of Commons," Rees-Mogg, tipped as a possible successor to May, told The Sunday Times newspaper, describing the Chequers proposals as "surrender" to the EU. "Of course the Eurosceptics in parliament are not in a majority on all issues, but we will be in a majority on some of them and that will make the legislation difficult if it is based on Chequers." The Chequers plan would keep Britain in a free trade ...
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