Members of Parliament are due to vote on the revised deal on Tuesday and it faces widespread opposition
. The agreement was already overwhelmingly rejected by MPs in January and another no vote would throw the country into turmoil with less than three weeks to go before the United Kingdom is set to leave the EU. Many business leaders fear there will be chaos at the borders if there is no agreement and several experts have warned the economy could take a significant hit.
The Prime Minister emerged Monday night with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who runs the EU’s administrative arm, and declared that she’d got the changes Tory rebels had demanded, particularly to the backstop provision, which guarantees no hard Irish border. Members of Parliament “were clear that legal changes were needed to the backstop,” Ms. May told reporters. “Today we have secured legal changes.
A new act of the Brexit drama unfolds this week, with as many as three crucial votes on the agenda and no sure outcome. There will be pomp though, and lots of it.The biggest problem for Ms. May is that nothing in the actual text of the withdrawal agreement has been changed, something she promised MPs after they voted down the agreement in January. The revisions are all contained in attachments to the deal that Ms. May described as legally binding, but that do not change the wording of the text.
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