Another crushing defeat for PM Theresa May
A delay to Brexit looks inevitable after Theresa May’s EU deal suffered another humiliating Commons defeat.
A delay in Brexit, possibly of nearly three months to late May, is now seen by both ministers and the opposition as almost certain. But more hardliner backbenchers stood firm in their belief that the so-called Northern Ireland backstop would tie the UK indefinitely to EU rules.Earlier, Brexiteers seized on
The Northern Ireland party, which props up May’s minority administration in the Commons, said its 10 MPs would vote against the latest deal as “sufficient progress has not been achieved at this time”. In a key section of her speech to MPs, May said that if her plan was defeated: “It would be no good blaming EU, responsibility would lie with this House.”
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