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Theresa May will have to consider the possibility of accepting a less binding Brexit if the measure is approved by Parliament this week, said Justice Secretary David Gauke.
Twelve days before the United Kingdom leaves the Union and Parliament is bogged down in a political stalemate, Gauke, a supporter of the Brexit soft, said the prime minister should "look very closely" if the deputies supported a customs union round of indicative votes starting Monday.
"I think she would need to look very closely at this," he told The BBC1's Andrew Marr Show Sunday.
"If the Parliament votes overwhelmingly against not leaving the European Union without an agreement but that it favors a softer Brexit, I do not think it's viable for the future." ignore Parliament's position and therefore leave without an agreement. "
May's hold on power seems increasingly fragile as ministers openly prepare for a leadership challenge after her resignation.
She hopes to be able to reapply on Brexit in Parliament this week, after being voted down for the third time by MPs – and seems about to call a general election if Parliament does not approve of the way forward. follow that she will then direct.
Gauke said that he could not remain a member of the government if he tried to leave without any agreement, but that May had made it clear that she would not do it.
"My position is that it is not the responsibility of a government to do, to leave without an agreement in these circumstances, so obviously, I would not be able to remain a member of the government that pursued that in as a policy, it's a point that I've already stressed many times, "he said.
"The Prime Minister has been very clear that when Parliament clarifies what it wants to do, it will not go down that road."
The Conservatives have warned that May should not be allowed to lead the party at an early election. But James Cleverly, vice president of the Conservative Party, told Sophy Ridge on Sky News that May could very well do it.
To the question of whether May could lead the party to early elections, he replied: "It's an inevitable possibility."
He insisted that the party was not gearing up specifically for early parliamentary elections to resolve the stalemate over the Brexit, but acknowledged that a "sensible and pragmatic" emergency planning " was in progress.
"I do not think an election would solve anything. Time is running out, we have the Brexit to deliver. We do not want to add unnecessary extra time, "he said.
Alistair Burt, a former foreign minister who resigned last week because of Brexit, warned that British democracy might collapse.
"We are in danger … we have seen in other countries that if people became so polarized that they did not listen to the other side, they resorted to other methods," he said.
More than 100 Conservative MPs also signed a letter calling in May to exclude an extension of Britain's membership of the European Union, even if it meant supporting a Brexit without agreement.
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