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Theresa May urged MEPs not to condemn Britain to a "slow Brexit" this week because she acknowledged that she still did not have the support of Parliament to reverse her agreement in order of a third significant vote.
After gathering Brexit figures during his retirement to Checkers country on Sunday and talking to DUP leader Arlene Foster and Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Monday, May said she was concluded that she could not win the vote yet.
"I had to conclude that, as things stand, support for the House is not yet enough to bring the agreement back to a meaningful third vote," she said. she reported to MEPs at the European Council summit last week.
May was also as close as she did to exclude a Brexit without agreement, pointing to the damage this would cause to the union – a message she also conveyed to the Cabinet, according to government sources. "If this house does not consent, no agreement will be reached," May said.
The Prime Minister said that she would flog her own MPs on Monday night against an amendment tabled by former Conservative Minister Oliver Letwin, which will allow MPs to control the parliamentary calendar and carry out a process of "ballots". indicative ".
Government ministers privately accept that the amendment will be adopted on Monday evening – and that it will probably indicate support for a less binding Brexit in Parliament.
But the prime minister said, "I must confess that I am skeptical about the process." She said it could produce "contradictory results, if at all", and create an unfortunate precedent that "would reverse the balance of our democratic institutions". "
May said that she could not commit to a "blank check" to implement the option chosen by MPs, but that it would give the government time for the setting up of an indicative voting process.
And she reiterated her criticism of an agreement to the Norwegian, which she called "Slow Brexit".
"A slow Brexit, which extends Article 50 beyond May 22, obliges the British people to participate in the European elections and gives up control of our borders, our laws, our money or our trade," he said. Is not a Brexit that will reunite the British people, "she said.
May also made it clear that she had not given up on the idea of bringing her own agreement back to Parliament in the next few days. "I hope we can all agree, we are all at the moment of making a decision," she said, urging MEPs to support her agreement and "guarantee Brexit".
A number of senior Brexiters have asked the Prime Minister, on a private basis, to set a date for his departure in exchange for support for his agreement.
May said that she "would continue to talk to colleagues from all over the party so that we can advance the vote this week and guarantee the Brexit."
The prime minister also repeated the explanation she gave in Brussels last week about her strident statement in Downing Street on Wednesday, which had been widely criticized by MPs for appearing to accuse Parliament of its hard situation.
May said that she had been "frustrated" but insisted that "people on all sides of the debate have pbadionate points of view and I respect those differences."
The government has practically admitted that it will lose control of Parliament this week and that MPs will vote on various Brexit options, with the ministers saying it would be useless for May to come up with his own plan.
It was then that May's hope of continuing to force her withdrawal contract faded after her phone call with the DUP leader, who rejected a personal request for support.
At a meeting with Corbyn on Monday, the Labor leader also rejected proposals that the Prime Minister's exit agreement could be separated from future relations.
A Labor Party spokesman said the two men had had a "free and full exchange of views" and Corbyn suggested that there was no reason to return to Parliament.
"The Labor leader has not accepted the Prime Minister's suggestion to separate the withdrawal agreement from the political declaration," the spokesman said.
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