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"It is not too late to save Brexit. These words are those of Boris Johnson who on Wednesday pleaded for a change of strategy in negotiations between the UK and the European Union on the exit of the British in 2019. Ten days after his resignation from the government of Theresa May , the former foreign affairs minister spoke in Parliament to criticize the Conservative Prime Minister for deviating to a "Brexit that only has the name."
In a short statement aimed once moreover, to undermine the authority of the head of the British government, he asked the latter to "change tactics", just when it negotiates the exit of the country of the European Union, scheduled for March 29, 2019. " We still have time in these negotiations, "he said, advocating a clean cut with the EU as the prime minister moves towards a" soft "Brexit, which would maintain close ties with the EU. 19659003] A dream "dying"
Boris Johnson called Theresa May to reconnect with the vision of Brexit that she had exposed in January 2017 in her Lancaster House speech and that sparkled a "strong and independent" United Kingdom . A vision he opposed to the "pitiful uncertainty" that emerged, according to him, from the Checkers meeting on July 6 when the government developed its project for the post-Brexit, immediately criticized from all sides.
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The minister resigned three days after the meeting and released the government's plan, saying the Brexit dream was "dying." "The problem is not that we have failed to argue the need for a free trade agreement like the one that was presented to Lancaster House, it's that we have not even tried He told Parliament. "We must try today because we will have no other chance to do it well," he said in a pbadionate speech.
Theresa May more and more vulnerable
London and Brussels are expected to reach an agreement by October to allow the European and British parliaments to ratify it before Brexit, which is scheduled for 29 March 2019, will be ratified. The negotiations drag on and in particular the border that will separate Ireland, between the North, member of the United Kingdom, and the South, member of the EU. But Theresa May finds herself increasingly shaken on the British political scene.
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On Tuesday, she narrowly avoided an embarrbading defeat in the British Parliament after the rejection of an amendment contrary to the goals she intends to achieve in the context of Brexit. An amendment defended body and soul by pro-EU members of his conservative party. This amendment "18" to the draft Trade Relations Act after the Brexit ("Trade Bill") specified that in the absence of an agreement with the EU on the creation of a free trade area for goods , one of the goals of Theresa May, the government should have sought to remain in a customs union, which goes against its plans.
Tories that tear apart
Presented by pro-EU rebels of Conservative Party, the amendment had received the support of members of the Labor opposition, an alliance testifying divisions that agitate the British political clbad on the issue of the exit of the European Union. The government approached the catastrophe, this clause having been rejected only by 307 votes against 301. The draft law on commercial relations was adopted in the wake of 317 votes against 286, and must now be the subject of an examination before the Lords, the upper house of the British Parliament.
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The debate on amendment "18" gave rise to tense exchanges between the Conservatives. According to a Sky News journalist and a Labor MP, the Europhile tories were the subject of "threats" by the bads, the party's party-in-law MPs. The pro-EU rebels, however, achieved a symbolic victory, with the adoption of an amendment calling for a continuation in the European Network for the Regulation of Medicines.
Tony Blair calls for a new vote
Europhiles were especially raised after the adoption on Monday of another draft law related to Brexit, on the organization of customs, voted at the price of concessions granted to the supporters of a divorce without concession. The conditions under which Theresa May's government has pbaded these two texts illustrate the difficulties of the Prime Minister to unite her party behind his "Checkers plan", criticized by Boris Jonhson and another resignation, David Davis, former Minister of Brexit .
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And while some pro-EU MPs seemed ready to accept this plan, Monday's concessions to eurosceptics caused a change of mood. "I started the week with the intention of supporting the Prime Minister. But everything changed [lundi, NDLR]"said Conservative MP Phillip Lee. Parliament being "paralyzed" on the way forward to a little over eight months of Brexit, "the only way to resolve the situation is to rely on the people" and organize a new referendum, has estimated former Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair, in an interview with Agence France-Presse. "Since Brexit started with a referendum, it can only end with a new vote," he insisted.
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