Theresa May's throw of the dice comes a day after her dramatic pledge to resign in order to persuade her rivals to finally back her vision for breaking Britain's 46-year bond with the European project.
LONDON - The British government said it intended to bring back Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal for a third vote in parliament on Friday to avoid a chaotic no-deal divorce from the EU.
The House of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom said the government was trying to secure permission for a third vote from parliament speaker John Bercow. Failure to pass the deal could mean a no-deal Brexit as early as 12 April. Businesses fear that will cause economic chaos.Britain might then seek a much longer extension that would mean it has to hold European Parliament elections despite having voted to leave the bloc.May's handling of Brexit has provoked both anger and frustration as well as ridicule.
Former foreign minister Boris Johnson said he would now back the premier "on behalf of the 17.4 million people who voted for Brexit".But the prime minister's position was undermined when her allies in Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party said they would continue to oppose the deal. The group worries that this would give Northern Ireland a different economic status from mainland Britain and separate it from the mainland."I don't make any apologies for that."
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