The Prime Minister warned Tory MPs that if a revised deal was rejected on Tuesday, the Brexit process could drag on and the country might not ever leave the EU
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a speech in the North Sea fishing port of Grimsby on March 8, 2019.British Prime Minister Theresa May has launched a last-ditch push to save her Brexit deal with the European Union as the clock ticks down to a deadline on Tuesday that could see the Brexit process collapse and the country face what she called “a moment of crisis.”
On Friday, Ms. May headed to Grimsby, a small city in northeast England where 70 per cent voted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum. In a speech at a local factory she urged Tory rebels and the EU to get behind the deal. The EU “has to make a choice,” she said. “It is in the European interest for the U.K. to leave with a deal.
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