According to reporting by Bloomberg, UK Prime Minister Theresa May sees the stakes rising in the run-up to the House of Commons’ vote on her new Brexit deal, with a fresh round of calls for a no-confidence vote in the works should her Brexit proposal fail to pass through Parliament.
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“Speaking on Sky News on Sunday, Labour’s Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer said that it was “inevitable” that the opposition party would propose a no confidence motion if, as is widely expected, the prime minister’s deal is rejected.
U.K. lawmakers are set to begin debating May’s Brexit package this week, before a final vote on Dec. 11. The signs don’t look promising for the prime minister. All opposition parties say they’ll reject it, as do her allies in Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party and about 100 members of her own Conservative Party.
Those Tory dissenters come from both sides on the Brexit debate, with Science Minister Sam Gyimah — who quit on Friday in the 22nd ministerial resignation since last year’s election — the latest pro-European to voice his displeasure. The U.K. is scheduled to leave the EU in a little less than four months.
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