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LONDON – British legislators have submitted a brutal revision to Brexit's plan, Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday issued a final appeal to a constituency she hoped to save: voters so tired of negotiations that they would support everything on the table. .
It is not that Mrs May wants to give them a real vote on the issue, a prospect that could undo her whole plan to extract Britain from the European Union.
But Prime Minister, separated from most members of his party and contemptuously treating even supposed business allies, is trying to pressure reluctant lawmakers to get the deal approved by the public .
"In Parliament, there is a lot of concern about who will vote or not for the agreement," Ms. May told a correspondent during an appearance Friday at BBC Radio 5 Live. "And I think outside, people think," In fact, let's make sure we can succeed. "
Since supporters of the clear separation between Europe and her conservative party have risen to the leadership challenge, Ms. May has seen its popularity rebound. More people have supported him as prime minister than to stay out of the way YouGov poll this week, a reversal of results a week earlier.
But the draft agreement itself remains deeply unpopular: only 23% of respondents supported it in a YouGov survey this week, and only 3% said it firmly.
Ms. May skirted the toughest questions she was asked by the radio callers on Friday, in a glimpse of what appeared to be a week of public campaigning for the deal, after European leaders announced it. voted Sunday in Brussels.
She declined to discuss a bailout plan if legislators in Parliament were to reject the draft agreement in a vote scheduled for mid-December. She refused to say if she would resign in this case. And she groped for an answer to one of the most provocative questions that Conservative legislators have been asking for the past few days: would the country be better protected by Ms. May's plan or had it never left the country? union?
"What will improve us is not so much whether we are in the European Union or not," she finally said. "That's what we can do for our economy; that's what we can do for our prosperity. "
The feeling that Ms. May's agreement was worse than staying in the bloc would spread among conservative lawmakers. Friday morning, Dominic Raab, who resigned as prime minister's secretary for Brexit because of his opposition to the agreement, said after a wave of talks that the terms of May's agreement "would still be worse than the conditions for joining the European Union.
"We would be bound by the same rules," he said, "but without control or voice over them."
Negotiators were still working on Friday to resolve outstanding issues over how British and European leaders would decide on the status of Gibraltar – a British overseas territory claimed by Spain – once the Great Britain Brittany will have left the union.
Spain wants to have a say in any future trade agreements affecting the territory, but May said Friday that the deal would be covered by UK-brokered deals.
