It doesn't sound like a very attractive package, but May argues that this deal fully achieves the Brexit that the voters chose two years ago.
Deal: Britain will stay indefinitely in a customs union with the EU, which will make it impossible to negotiate free-trade deals with others, and Britain will only be able to leave it by agreement with the EU and with the consent of an international arbitration body.
May nonetheless is sticking to the line - which she has firmly, indeed obstinately, defended in two parliamentary appearances this week - that she has achieved the Brexit deal she wanted all along.
They were asked to do the impossible, weren't they? Remainers and the government's allies are now rallying round May precisely on the grounds that the deal isn't Brexit and indeed that it will postpone Brexit indefinitely.
May and her loyalist supporters therefore face three linked challenges: a possible leadership vote, a possible parliamentary defeat on the EU-U.K. deal, and a possible election to resolve the Brexit solution.
The second obstacle is her claim that the EU-U.K. deal she has embraced achieves the Brexit referendum result.
There is no good end to this crisis under May's leadership or on the basis of this dangerous and undemocratic deal.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/theresa-may-brexit-deal-negotiations-crisis/
Deal: Britain will stay indefinitely in a customs union with the EU, which will make it impossible to negotiate free-trade deals with others, and Britain will only be able to leave it by agreement with the EU and with the consent of an international arbitration body.
May nonetheless is sticking to the line - which she has firmly, indeed obstinately, defended in two parliamentary appearances this week - that she has achieved the Brexit deal she wanted all along.
They were asked to do the impossible, weren't they? Remainers and the government's allies are now rallying round May precisely on the grounds that the deal isn't Brexit and indeed that it will postpone Brexit indefinitely.
May and her loyalist supporters therefore face three linked challenges: a possible leadership vote, a possible parliamentary defeat on the EU-U.K. deal, and a possible election to resolve the Brexit solution.
The second obstacle is her claim that the EU-U.K. deal she has embraced achieves the Brexit referendum result.
There is no good end to this crisis under May's leadership or on the basis of this dangerous and undemocratic deal.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/theresa-may-brexit-deal-negotiations-crisis/
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