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British Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement Thursday at 10 Downing Street in London. May states that the approval of the Brexit agreement "is within our grasp" and she is determined to give it to her.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement Thursday at 10 Downing Street in London. May states that the approval of the Brexit agreement "is within our grasp" and she is determined to give it to her.
Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP
On Thursday, officials from the United Kingdom and the European Union approved a draft agreement on their future relations when Britain leaves at the end of March 2020. This agreement, which is not legally binding, provides for an "ambitious, broad, deep and deep". flexible partnership ", including a commercial relationship on goods" as close as possible ".
Speaking in the British House of Commons, Prime Minister Theresa May insisted that her government negotiate a comprehensive deal allowing Britain to control migration – an issue that helped motivate the vote on Brexit in 2016 – and to take back power in Brussels to make its own laws.
"The British want the Brexit settled," she said. "They want a good deal that puts us on the path to a better future.In these seventy-two crucial hours, I will do everything in my power to present it to the British people."
But for the second time in a week or so, politicians from all parties in the House have strongly criticized the Prime Minister's plans. The Brexiteers of the May Conservative Party and members of the opposition Labor Party have said that this deal could lock the UK into the EU's customs regulations for years to come and prevent the Great Britain to conclude new trade agreements with other countries.
The interim withdrawal agreement calls on the UK to continue to follow the EU customs provisions if both parties can not agree on a new trade agreement. The aim is to avoid building new customs posts between Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, which is part of the EU .
Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said the May deal put Britain in a weak position.
"This is the worst of all worlds," Corbyn said while questioning the Prime Minister in the House of Commons. "No word on the rules that will continue to apply and no certainty about the future.It is the blind Brexit we all feared, a jump in the dark . "
May tried to sell his market in the House, but even members of his own party chanted it. The EU has agreed on Sunday in Brussels, but the UK prime minister's biggest challenge will take place next month, when she will try to get her new plan adopted through her own. parliament.
