Brexit bribe? UK PM May unveils $2.1 billion fund for Brexit-backing towns

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British Prime Minister Theresa May will on Monday set out plans for a 1.6 billio...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May will on Monday set out plans for a 1.6 billion pound fund to help to boost economic growth in Brexit-supporting communities with ministers denying it was a bribe to win support for her EU exit deal.

Britain is due to leave the bloc at the end of the month and May, whose exit deal with Brussels was rejected by a large majority of lawmakers in January, has promised parliament will get to vote on a revised deal by March 12. “These towns have a glorious heritage, huge potential and, with the right help, a bright future ahead of them.”“This towns fund smacks of desperation from a government reduced to bribing Members of Parliament to vote for their damaging flagship Brexit legislation,” he said in a statement.

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