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LONDON – British Prime Minister Theresa May has been beating up on her husband and wife, as well as on the job market, and a growing list of lawmakers in Britain and the European Union.
Lawyer of the Cabinet of Ministers and the President of the United States of America, and a leading pro-Brexit lawmaker of May's Conservative Party called for a no-confidence vote in the prime minister.
The hard-won agreement has infuriated pro-Brexit members of her divided party. They say the agreement, which calls for close trade between the U.K. and the bloc, would leave Britain a vassal state, bound to European Union rules.
A defiant May insisted that Brexit meant making "the right choices, not the easy ones" and urged lawmakers to support the deal "in the national interest."
But she was weakened by the resignation of two senior cabinet ministers, including Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab. Hours after he sat in the meeting that approved the deal, said Raab he "can not in good conscience" support it.
Esther McVey followed by Raab out the door. She said in her letter that it is "no good trying to pretend that this deal is the result of the referendum".
In another blow to May, leading pro-Brexit lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg called for a vote of no-confidence in May.
Standing outside Parliament Rees-Mogg said the deal agreed "is not Brexit" because it would keep Britain in a customs union with the EU, "potentially for an indefinite period.
Under the influence of conservative rules, 15 percent of Conservative lawmakers – currently 48 – 1922 Committee of backbenchers, which oversees leadership votes.
Only committee chairman Graham Brady knows for sure how many missives have been felt, but Rees-Mogg's letter is likely to spur others to do the same.
Rees-Mogg denied he was calling for a blow party.
"Suddenly, when you use illegitimate processes," he said. "This is working through the procedures of the Conservative Party."
He has been called on to be a more-pro-Brexit politician, naming former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, to form Brexit Secretary David Davis and Raab as Potential Successors.
The Conservative lawmaker – except her – can run. The winner would be prime minister with a national election.
Conservative Chief Whip Julian Smith insisted May and her deal would survive.
"The prime minister will not be bullied," he said.
The turmoil is the latest eruption in the Conservative Party's long-running civil war over Europe. Ever since Britain joined the European Economic Community in 1973, the party has been split between supporters and opponents of Britain's membership. In 2016, then Prime Prime Minister David Cameron called a referendum "to settle this European question in British politics" once and for all.
He was confident the country would vote to remain, but voters opted by 52-48 percent to the US, a result that left both the Conservatives and the country more divided than ever. Cameron's successor, May, has been struggling ever since to deliver a Brexit that satisfies leavers, reconciles remainers and does not rock the economy – a near-impossible balancing act.
Thursday's political mayhem prompted a big fall in the value of the pound, which was trading at 1.5 percent lower at $ 1.2797 as investors could not afford that Britain could crash out of the EU in March without a deal. That could see tariffs on British exports, border checks, and restrictions on travelers – a potentially toxic combination for businesses.
Business groups will have to deal with contingent plans that could include cutting jobs, stockpiling goods, and relocating production overseas.
May 1, 2012 Leave a comment and leave a comment to the post on the post. Brexit – are not realistic options.
"The choice is clear," May be told lawmakers during a three-hour question and answer session. "We can choose to leave with no deal. We can not risk Brexit at all. Or we can choose the best deal that can be negotiated – this deal. "
News that a deal has been struck and a half of negotiations are welcomed by Brussels, and EU chief Donald Tusk called for a summit of leaders on Nov. 25 so they can rubber-stamp the agreement.
Tusk said it was "not for me to comment on the latest developments in London."
"All I can say is that the EU is prepared for a final deal with the U.K. in November," he said. "We are also prepared for a no-holds-barred scenario. We are preparing for a no-Brexit scenario."
The deal requires the consent of the European Parliament, whose chief Brexit official, Guy Verhofstadt, welcomed it as "the best agreement we could obtain."
It also needs approval from Britain's Parliament before the U.K. leaves the block on March 29th – and even if May survives a leader, the chances of that look slim.
Her Conservative Government does not have a majority, and is affiliated with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland.
But the DUP has rejected the deal, saying its provisions to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland would impose new barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K., weakening the bonds that hold the United Kingdom together.
Opposition parties also reported that they would vote against the agreement.
Main Opposition Labor Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn said May should withdraw the "half-baked" Brexit deal and that Parliament "can not and will not accept a false choice between this deal and no deal."
Ian Blackford, who heads the Scottish National Party in Parliament, said the deal was "dead on arrival" and urged to "stop the clock and go back to Brussels."
An EU official warned that Britain was unlikely to get a better deal. Speaking on condition of anonymity because the process is still ongoing, the official said both sides "exhausted our margin of maneuver under our respective mandates."
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Casert reported from Brussels. Raphael Satter and Pan Pylas in London contributed to this story.
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