Theresa May secures 11th-hour Brexit assurances from EU
The UK prime minister has won legally binding guarantees in a last-ditch attempt to sway rebellious MPs who have threatened to vote down her divorce deal again
London/Strasbourg — Prime Minister Theresa May won legally binding Brexit assurances from the EU on Monday in a last-ditch attempt to sway rebellious British legislators who have threatened to vote down her divorce deal again. Scrambling to plot an orderly path out of the Brexit maze just days before the UK is due to leave on March 29, May rushed to Strasbourg to agree additional assurances with European commission president Jean-Claude Juncker. Brexiteers in May’s party have accused her of surrendering to the EU and it was not clear if the assurances she agreed would be enough to win over the 116 additional legislators she needs to reverse the crushing defeat her deal suffered on January 15. “Today we have secured legal changes,” May said in a late night news conference in Strasbourg beside Juncker, exactly 17 days before the UK is due to leave the EU. “Now is the time to come together to back this improved Brexit deal and to deliver on the instruction of the British people,” May s...
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