No-deal Brexit or short delay? British PM May offers legislators a choice
Opening up the possibility of removing the option of leaving without a deal marks one of the biggest turning points in the UK’s crisis
London — Prime Minister Theresa May offered legislators the chance on Tuesday to vote in just more than two weeks on whether to delay Brexit or go for a potentially disorderly no-deal exit from the EU if her attempt to ratify a divorce deal fails. Opening up the possibility of taking a no-deal off the table marks one of the biggest turning points in the UK’s labyrinthine Brexit crisis since the shock 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU. After the British parliament voted 432-202 against her divorce deal in January, the worst defeat for a government in modern British history, May has repeatedly tried to use the threat of a potentially disorderly no-deal Brexit to get concessions out of the EU. But British legislators who are worried that May risks thrusting the world’s fifth-largest economy into an economic crisis have threatened to usurp control of Brexit from the government in a series of votes on Wednesday. Speaking to parliament on Tuesday, May said that if she fails to get appr...
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