‘No deal is better than a bad deal but a bad deal is better than remaining in the EU,’ says the Brexit-backing MP
Brexit supporting Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. Picture: SIMON DAWSON/REUTERS
May is scrambling to rally support ahead of a summit of EU heads of government on Thursday and Friday where she has warned she will ask for a long Brexit delay unless parliament ratifies the deal she struck in November. Rees-Mogg said his dream option would be a no-deal exit on March 29 but that he felt May — a former supporter of EU membership who won the premiership in the turmoil that followed the 2016 Brexit referendum — would seek to stop a no-deal.
To get her deal through parliament, May must win over at least 75 lawmakers — dozens of rebels in her own Conservative Party, some Labour lawmakers, and the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party , which props up her minority government.
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