The speaker of Britain’s House of Commons dealt a potentially fatal blow to Prime Minister Theresa May’s ailing Brexit deal on Monday, saying the government couldn’t keep asking lawmakers to vote on the same deal they have already rejected twice.
John Bercow, speaker of the House of Commons, said a new motion introduced by Prime Minister Theresa May would have to be"fundamentally different."
The ruling caused an uproar on the government side of the House of Commons. Solicitor General Robert Buckland said Britain was facing a “major constitutional crisis.” Her goal is to win over Northern Ireland's small, power-brokering Democratic Unionist Party. The DUP’s 10 lawmakers prop up May’s Conservative government, and their support could influence pro-Brexit Conservatives to drop their opposition to the deal.
Talks between the government and the DUP are aimed at reassuring the party that Britain couldn’t be trapped in the backstop indefinitely. “No deal is better than a bad deal, but a bad deal is better than remaining in the European Union,” he told LBC radio.
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