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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May has said she sees no alternative to the Brexit agreement that she had tabled earlier this week, while some of its key ministers would like it to renegotiate the draft agreement before meeting European leaders next weekend.
British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street by the back exit in London, UK on November 16, 2018. REUTERS / Peter Nicholls
"There is no alternative plan on the table. There is no different approach with which we could agree with the EU, "May wrote in an article for the newspaper Sun on Sunday.
"If MEPs (legislators) reject the agreement, they will simply take us back to square one. It would mean more division, more uncertainty and a failure to hold the vote of the British people, "she added.
Just hours after announcing Wednesday that his key ministers collectively supported his divorce deal, May was plunged into the most perilous crisis of his prime minister when Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab resigned on Thursday for his siege. to oppose the agreement.
Other deputies mutilated his party openly spoke about his ouster and said that the Brexit agreement would not be passed by Parliament.
Brexit supporters believe that the transitional agreement risks leaving Britain subject to EU rules for an indefinite period.
On Saturday, Andrea Leadsom, the minister in charge of government affairs in Parliament, told the BBC that she was supporting May but that she was not entirely satisfied with the agreement.
"I think it's still possible to improve the clarification and some of its measures and that's what I hope to help," she said.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said Saturday that British ministers favor Brexit "did not live in the real world" if they thought they could renegotiate the divorce treaty agreed with the EU. last week.
Several British newspapers had announced that Leadsom was working with four other Brexit ministers and enthusiasts – Michael Gove, Liam Fox, Chris Grayling and Penny Mordaunt – to pressure May to change the deal.
Mordaunt, Raab and five other great conservatives – former Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, his predecessor, David Davis, Interior Minister, Sajid Javid, Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt, and the Minister of Labor and Pensions, Amber Rudd – are actively preparing. Times said.
More than 20 Conservative lawmakers have written to request the departure of May and a total of 48 requests are needed to trigger a leadership race.
The Sunday Times also reported that the British army was ordered to step up its emergency plans to help the police maintain public order in case of shortage of food and medicine after a Brexit "without agreement" , citing an unidentified "military source well placed".
Report by David Milliken; Edited by Cynthia Osterman
