MPs tell Theresa May to get a better Brexit deal, but the EU rejects the offer
UK legislators want a replacement for the controversial Irish border arrangement, but Brussels does not want to reopen the treaty
London — British MPs on Tuesday instructed Prime Minister Theresa May to reopen a Brexit treaty with the EU to replace a controversial Irish border arrangement, and promptly received a flat rejection from Brussels. Two weeks after overwhelmingly rejecting May’s Brexit deal, parliament backed a proposal intended to send her back to Brussels with a stronger mandate to seek changes that were more likely to win their support. At the same time, they rejected a proposal to give parliament a path to prevent a potentially chaotic “no-deal” exit by making May ask Brussels for a delay if she cannot get a deal through parliament. With two months left until Britain is due by law to leave the EU, investors and allies have urged the government to clinch a deal to allow an orderly exit from the club it joined in 1973. “Tonight, a majority of honourable members have said they would support a deal with changes to the backstop,” May said, only two weeks after her divorce deal was crushed in the bigge...
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