BREAKING: An influential group of Brexit-backing lawmakers in Britain won't vote for Prime Minister Theresa May's EU divorce deal because they say the changes she secured are not good enough.
An influential group of Brexit-backing lawmakers in Britain says it won’t vote for Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU divorce deal because changes she has secured are not good enough.
May hoped that concessions she got from the EU late Monday would be enough to prompt Attorney General Geoffrey Cox to alter his advice that the country could end up being tied indefinitely in a customs union with the EU after Brexit.The pound has slumped by more than 1 percent against the dollar after the British Attorney General’s assessment of Prime Minister Theresa May’s reinforced expectations that lawmakers will reject it.
David Cheetham, chief market analyst at XTB, said it now “looks like any hopes of an unlikely victory for the PM’s deal later have just been extinguished.”Britain’s attorney general says changes to the Brexit divorce deal secured by Prime Minister Theresa May don’t eliminate the risk the country will remain entwined with European Union rules indefinitely.
Arriving in Bucharest, most EU European affairs ministers were upbeat about the deal which will be voted upon by the U.K. parliament Tuesday night.
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