LONDON, June 6 -- Fresh from its victory in European polls, Mr Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is hoping to win its first seat in Britain's Parliament on Thursday (June 6) in a by-election in Peterborough. The poll in the eastern English cathedral city was triggered after the sitting MP, Fiona Onasanya, was dumped by voters after being jailed for lying over a speeding offence. The Brexit Party, formed by eurosceptic figurehead Farage only a few months ago, secured 38 per cent of the vote in Peterborough in May 23 elections for the European Parliament. It is hoping to capitalise on that momentum as well as voter disillusionment with the main Conservative and Labour parties, who have historically shared the seat. Both parties were punished by voters in the European polls for the political chaos over Brexit, which has forced out Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May. Onasanya was a Labour MP, but was expelled following her conviction and the party is fighting to keep the seat. It got 17 per cent of the vote in Peterborough in the European polls, while the Conservatives secured just 11 per cent, level with the Greens. The pro-European Liberal Democrats got 15 per cent. NEXT CHAPTER Mrs May is stepping down after delaying Brexit twice as she tried and failed to get her EU divorce deal through Parliament. Mr Farage, who has called for Britain to leave the bloc without a deal, said the by-election outcome could top the European result. "Our political establishment were absolutely mortified by what happened," he said while campaigning in Peterborough last weekend. "But in some ways what happens here on Thursday is even bigger... the opportunity for the next chapter in this great story." The Brexit Party's candidate is Mr Mike Greene, a local businessman. The Labour candidate is the Unite trade union activist Lisa Forbes. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has visited the city, saying the party's campaign was about local issues and climate change. "We take that core Labour message out to all the doors of bringing our society and our community together... to ensure we maintain that trading relationship with our nearest neighbours in Europe and to ensure that we get a Labour government at the end of this," he said. Fifteen candidates are standing. Four pro-EU parties were planning to stand a joint 'Remain' candidate - Mr Femi Oluwole, a campaigner for a new Brexit referendum. During the 2016 Brexit referendum, 62 per cent in the wider Peterborough area voted to leave the EU. In the 2017 general election, Onasanya narrowly won the seat for Labour by 607 votes, or a 1.3 per cent margin, from the Conservative Stewart Jackson, who had been the MP since 2005. The 35-year-old lawyer was sentenced in January to three months in prison for perverting the course of justice. She was released on licence after four weeks and returned to sit in Parliament as an independent MP, wearing an electronic surveillance tag. Under a new law introduced in 2015, her conviction triggered a recall petition which was backed by 28 per cent of eligible voters. The polls close at 10pm and the by-election result is expected early on Friday.
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LONDON, June 5 -- Boris Johnson, the front-runner to replace Theresa May as British prime minister, warned Conservative Party colleagues that they face "extinction" if they didn't deliver Brexit by the current deadline of Oct 31. "We are facing an existential crisis and will not be forgiven if we do not deliver," Johnson told a private meeting of Tory members of Parliament, according to his office. "There is a very real choice between getting Brexit done and the potential extinction of this great party." He was speaking after the Conservatives set out an an accelerated procedure for selecting a new leader that will see a prime minister in place by July 26. The party has raised the bar for MPs who wish to run for the job, and two dropped out Tuesday, narrowing the field slightly to 11. The first hustings of the election was held behind closed doors in Parliament on Tuesday (June 4) evening, as four of the candidates - Sajid Javid, Rory Stewart, Boris Johnson and Andrea Leadsom - addressed the "One Nation" caucus of Conservatives, who want the party to focus on unifying issues of social policy, rather then Brexit. MORE SUBDUED Johnson, who has kept a low profile in recent weeks, has yet to set out how he would achieve his goal, but according to Nicky Morgan, one of the MPs who organised the event, he said the existing deal negotiated by May didn't work. He also said that while he didn't want a no-deal Brexit, the country should prepare for one. He ruled out a second referendum or a general election. "Sajid was very responsible, Rory was a direct pitch to colleagues, Boris was more subdued, and Andrea was more optimistic," Morgan said. Morgan said Johnson had told the room that if the UK delayed its departure from the European Union past Oct 31, the current deadline, "the relevance of the referendum starts to wane." That is a comment that could come back to haunt him if Britain does end up seeking a further delay. His office didn't deny he'd made it. MONTREUX, 28 MAY 2019 – The 67th Bilderberg Meeting will take place from May 30 – June 2, 2019 in Montreux, Switzerland. About 130 participants from 23 countries have confirmed their attendance. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia, labour and the media has been invited.The 2019 edition of the exclusive Bilderberg Meeting will take place at the Hotel Montreux Palace in the Swiss town of Montreux from Thursday to Sunday. It will feature Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer, French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, the head of Germany’s Christian Democrats, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, and Crédit-Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam among others. According to Swiss daily Tages Anzeiger, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will also be among the attendees, although he is not on the official guest list on the Bildberg website. The Swiss paper reports that Pompeo is set to sit down with Ueli Maurer. The two are tipped to discuss the situation in Iran where Switzerland represents US interests. However, the Swiss Finance Ministry told The Local on Tuesday that no meeting was envisaged between Pompeo and Maurer. The yearly Bilderberg talk-fest, which dates back to 1954, features a guest list of around 130 people from Europe and North America including everyone from royals to business tycoons and academics. A highly secretive affair without a fixed agenda, the Bilderberg Meeting is regular fodder for conspiracy theorists who believe its participants act as a secret world government. However, organisers argue the private nature of the event gives attendees the chance to hold informal discussions about major issues. Topics up for discussion this year include climate change and sustainability, Brexit, China, Russia, the future of capitalism and the weaponization of social media. According to the official Bilderberg website, discussions are held under the Chatham House Rule, which means participants can use any information they receive during the meeting but cannot reveal its source. This year will be the second time the Bilderberg meeting has been held in Switzerland. In 2011, it was held in St Moritz in the country’s southeast. The key topics for discussion this year are:
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PARTICIPANTS LONDON, May 29 -- Boris Johnson has been ordered to attend court over accusations of misconduct in a public office during the Brexit referendum. A judge ruled there was a case to answer after a private prosecution was brought against the former Foreign Secretary. Remain supporter Marcus Ball claims Mr Johnson - the favourite to succeed Theresa May as Prime Minister - knowingly made false statements during the 2016 campaign about the amount of money the UK sends to the EU. It is understood his accusation relates to the Vote Leave battlebus, which claimed the UK could afford to give the NHS an extra £350m a week after Brexit. In a written judgement issued at Westminster Magistrates Court, District Judge Margot Coleman said: "The allegations which have been made are unproven accusations and I do not make any findings of fact. "Having considered all the relevant factors I am satisfied that this is a proper case to issue the summons as requested for the three offences as drafted. The charges are indictable only. "This means the proposed defendant will be required to attend this court for a preliminary hearing, and the case will then be sent to the Crown Court for trial. The charges can only be dealt with in the Crown Court." Mr Johnson has previously described the court action as a "political stunt." Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is backing the Uxbridge MP's leadership bid, told the Telegraph: "The court should not be used for obviously political purposes, it is an abuse of legal procedure. "The courts should not be politics by other means, it sets a dangerous precedent." But Lib Dem MP Ed Davey said: "Given Boris Johnson wants to be the next Prime Minister of this country, it's only right that he is held accountable for the lies he told in 2016." Meanwhile, a poll for the ConservativeHome website shows Mr Johnson has maintained his clear lead with party members. It shows him on 33%, well ahead of second placed Dominic Raab, who is on 15% and Michael Gove on 12%. LONDON, May 24 -- Theresa May's turbulent leadership of the Conservative Party will end on June 7, paving the way for a new prime minister to lead the Brexit process. Watched by husband Philip and her closest aides, an emotional Mrs May said it was in the "best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort". Announcing her departure from a job she loved, Mrs May said: "I am today announcing that I will resign as leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party on Friday 7th June so that a successor can be chosen." Concluding her resignation statement, Mrs May broke down as she said it had been "the honour of my life" to serve "the country that I love". Earlier, in a sign that the leadership race to replace Mrs May is already under way, Helen Grant quit as Conservative vice chair for communities to "actively and openly" support Dominic Raab. She quit her Tory party role to avoid any "perception of a conflict" between Mr Raab's campaign and Conservative HQ". Ms Grant said the former Brexit secretary "has an inspiring vision for a fairer Britain and I think he is undoubtedly the best person to unite the Conservative Party and our country". LONDON, May 18 -- Britain’s Brexit crisis moves, with each passing week, ever higher up the fiasco index. If it were not so grave for the future of one Europe’s major democracies and economies it would be comical. This week’s chapter — the collapse of the government’s six-week attempt to find a compromise with the Labour opposition — was entirely predictable. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was unprepared to let go of his demand for a post-Brexit customs union, even though that is what is offered, albeit temporarily, in the withdrawal treaty that prime minister Theresa May has negotiated with Brussels, and that, inexplicably, Labour has consistently voted down. Every step of the way, Mr Corbyn and most of his MPs have grasped each and every opportunity to put party interest above that of the country. In doing so they have shown their contempt for the many Labour-held constituencies that voted leave in the 2016 referendum. For her part, Ms May is right to blame the failure of the cross-party talks in part on her government’s inability to see a common Labour position on the UK’s exit from the EU: Does it want to deliver Brexit — the promise in its 2017 election manifesto — or hold a second referendum which could kill it? Profound divisions in the Conservative Party also limited the government’s scope for compromise on a withdrawal agreement that, in any event, cannot be amended because Brussels has refused to have a word of it changed. It cannot, without the EU’s approval, offer improved exit terms, and the party’s hardline leavers would not have accepted any compromise that included a second referendum, known euphemistically as a people’s vote, as the 2016 poll was nothing of the sort. It is difficult to underestimate the contempt in which Ms May is held not only by a sizeable chunk of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons but also by leave-voting Tory activists. They have forced the PM to give advance notice of her resignation, giving Mr Corbyn another wound at which to gnaw. How, he asks — with tears in his eyes and hand on heart — could Labour agree a common policy with the government, only for it to be torn up by a Tory prime minister who actually understood Brexit and was capable of getting the job done? He doesn’t do sincerity that well. As many predicted, the talks were a waste of time. Britain and its neighbours are back where they were months ago. Brussels waits and watches, and Leo Varadkar’s Government must lift the sofa cushions to find €50m to part-fund an aid package for the Brexit-related losses being suffered by cattle farmers. Next up is another problem for Ms May: An election in which British voters normally take scant interest but which paradoxically is now of enormous interest because, firstly, it should not be happening, and secondly it will give the country — and its four nations — the chance to return a verdict on the farce so far. With the Conservatives and Labour having mounted campaigns that so far can be viewed only with the aid of a telescope, and the Brexit Party surging ahead in polls, it’s likely to be seen — certainly in England as distinct from the rest of the UK — as a second referendum. If the pro-Brexit vote holds, the issue goes back to a House of Commons still being dominated by remain-inclined MPs and incapable of producing a majority for any way forward. A general election, with the Conservatives under a new leader and Labour offering a clear policy, now looks inevitable sooner — much sooner — rather than later. LONDON, April 23 -- The European elections are shaping up to be a colourful affair with both the Brexit Party and pro-EU Change UK revealing a spate of new candidates this morning. Along with Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sister Annunziata, libertarian Claire Fox will stand for Nigel Farage’s party. Meanwhile on the Remain side, a member of a political dynasty has decided to try and win election as an MP for Change UK. Step forward Rachel Johnson. Johnson is to follow in the footsteps of her father Stanley and brothers Boris and Jo by entering the political arena. The writer has revealed she will stand as a European election candidate in the South West region for Change UK, set up by the Independent Group MPs. Explaining her decision to the Evening Standard, Johnson said: ‘A vote to leave the EU is so important, so life-changing for the next two generations that I am impelled to stand up and be counted for what I believe in, which is that we are far better in Europe.’ Mr S wonders whether Johnson will have better luck than the last time she joined a political party. In 2017, Johnson announced that she was joining the Liberal Democrats in protest at the Conservative party’s Brexit stance. However, that endorsement failed to provide the party with much in the way of a poll boost. Will Johnson’s latest foray into politics lead to change? Nigel Farage raises £750,000 in days for new Brexit to fight back against EU exit ‘betrayal’12/4/2019 LONDON, April 12 -- Nigel Farage ahead of the launch of his new Brexit party todayHe said today that he was "determined to make sure the referendum result is enacted" and fight back against the betrayal of the British people. Speaking to Radio 4 he blasted EU politicians for "talking down to and bullying" the UK which has made us "a laughing stock in the eyes of the world". And he said Ukip are finished because "the brand is now tarnished". His new Brexit Party would be able to take large chunks out of the Ukip, Tory and Labour votes, telling them we should have left the EU on March 29. It's raked in three quarters of a million pounds in just over 10 days, mostly made up of smaller donors, he claimed in an article for The Daily Telegraph today. And describing Brexit is a "national humiliation" he insisted Britain was still being governed by a "ruling class" who didn't believe in the country. "We are a great nation and a great people. But we are being held back by weak leadership. The time to change this is now,' he wrote. "We see the next few weeks as the beginning of a fightback against an establishment that has wilfully betrayed our trust." Today he put a whopping £1,000 bet that his new party would win the European elections and get the most seats if Britain is forced to take part in them. Tories fear their own party will face a battering at the local polls next month, and the European elections if we have to hold them. Conservative MEP David Campbell Bannerman said today the party "will get a kicking" on May 23 and lose half of their 18 MEPs. LONDON, April 8 -- The London Stock Exchange said its pan-European platform Turquoise would shift trading in euro-denominated shares to its new Dutch hub if Britain leaves the European Union at the end of the week without a deal. British, Swiss and U.S. shares would remain on its existing platform in London, the LSE said in a statement. Turquoise was committed to offering the full range of shares on its UK platform, the LSE said in a statement on Monday. In the event of a hard Brexit on April 12, Turquoise intends to reintroduce European Economic Area shares on its London platform over the course of the year, it added. The LSE’s preparations are similar to those announced by Europe’s biggest pan-European share trading platform, Cboe, on Friday. Britain’s exit from the EU was still hanging in the balance on Monday as Prime Minister Theresa May tried to coax the Labour Party into agreeing a divorce deal, two days before an emergency summit. The sector is waiting to see if Britain’s markets watchdog will impose restrictions on where shares can be traded if there is a no-deal Brexit. The moves announced by LSE and Cboe provide flexibility to offer trading to customers in Britain and on the continent, whatever the FCA watchdog decides. LONDON, April 5 -- Theresa May has written to European Council president Donald Tusk today with the UK's request for a further delay to Brexit. The Prime Minister is seeking an extension until June 30, but said she wants to ratify her Withdrawal Agreement by May 23 in order to avoid European Parliament, but will make "responsible preparations" to take part if that does not prove possible. In her letter, she wrote: "I am writing to inform the European Council that the United Kingdom is seeking a further extension to the period provided under Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union, including as applied by Article 106a of the Euratom Treaty. "The United Kingdom proposes that this period should end on 30 June 2019. If the parties are able to ratify before this date, the Government proposes that the period should be terminated early. "The Government will want to agree a timetable for ratification that allows the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union before 23 May 2019 and therefore cancel the European Parliament elections, but will continue to make responsible preparations to hold the elections should this not prove possible." Mrs May said if ongoing talks with Labour do not lead to a "single unified approach soon" then the Government would instead look to establish a "consensus" on options on a future relationship that could be put to the Commons. She wrote: "The Government stands ready to abide by the decision of the House, if the Opposition will commit to doing the same." It comes after reports that President Tusk is set to propose at 'flexible' extension to the timescale for the UK's exit. The arrangement would reportedly set a maximum end date of next Spring 2020 for the UK's departure while making clear that the UK could leave earlier if it passes the Withdrawal Agreement before then and ratifies a Brexit treaty. Mr Tusk is understood to have held talks with officials over several hours in Brussels yesterday outlining his proposals to the key players. The proposal - dubbed a 'flex-tension' - is expected to be tabled officially by Mr Tusk later today, but it will require the sign off of all 27 EU member states at the EU's Brexit summit next Wednesday, April 10, when Mrs May will be present. Mr Tusk said it was "the only reasonable way out". Some EU leaders are likely to be very sceptical about a long extension, however, amid fears that it increases risk of Brexit disorder "infecting" the wider EU region. BRUSSELS, April 5 -- Donald Tusk will push the EU27 to offer Theresa May a one-year “flexible” extension to article 50 with an option to leave the EU once the withdrawal agreement is ratified by parliament, according to senior EU sources. The European council president will tell leaders at a summit on Wednesday the “flextension” idea would avoid the heads of state and government having to consider extra Brexit delays every few weeks. The EU27 will need to unanimously agree to the plan, which Tusk is backing after hours of preparatory meetings in recent days, senior EU sources said. The former Polish president is determined to give Downing Street as much flexibility as possible to avoid any suggestion that Brussels is seeking to trap Britain in the EU. There will be concerns in some EU capitals about both the length of the extension, given the potential for the British government to meddle in the EU’s long-term planning, and the uncertainty it would create about the UK’s position in the bloc. The failure of the parliament to coalesce around a post-Brexit vision will also be a source of frustration for Emmanuel Macron, the French president, who has insisted that the UK must have a “credible plan” for the EU to offer any further extension at all. The UK would have to hold elections to the European parliament on 23 May under the Tusk plan, but British MEPs would leave the chamber once the UK had left the bloc. A set of elected MEPs from the other 27 member states would then step in, UK sources said. The development comes as the attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, said he thought the offer from the EU was “likely to be a long one”, in an interview with the BBC. The current legal position is that the UK is to leave the EU at 11pm GMT on 12 April. The prime minister had said earlier this week that she would seek a short extension until 22 May to allow cross-party talks with the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to come to fruition. But speaking to the European parliament within 24 hours of May making her intent clear, the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker rejected it. He instead set an “ultimate deadline” of 12 April for the Commons to approve the withdrawal agreement. “If it has not done so by then, no further short extension will be possible,” he said. “After 12 April, we risk jeopardising the European parliament elections, and so threaten the functioning of the European Union.” With the Commons now tying the prime minister to avoiding a no-deal Brexit, and the EU preparing an option that it believes will suit Downing Street, the threat of the UK crashing out of the bloc is heavily diminished. The chancellor, Philip Hammond, has in recent days backed the idea of a flextension. Meanwhile, May is expected to write to Jeremy Corbyn to set out the government’s offer on Brexit, with negotiations due to resume in Downing Street on Friday. With five days to go before the prime minister travels to Brussels to request a Brexit delay from EU leaders, little progress appeared to have been made on finding a compromise deal both Labour and the Conservatives can back. LONDON, April 4 -- Proposals to further delay the date of Brexit have moved closer to becoming law after they squeaked through the Commons by one vote. MPs supported the European Union (Withdrawal) (No 5) Bill at third reading by 313 votes to 312. The draft legislation tabled by Labour former minister Yvette Cooper requires Prime Minister Theresa May to table a motion seeking MPs' approval for an extension to the Article 50 process beyond April 12 to a date of her choosing. It is part of a parliamentary bid to prevent a no-deal departure from the EU. Tory Brexiteers strongly opposed the measures and, shortly before the final vote, they expressed their frustration at the Bill clearing all stages in the Commons in a matter of hours. Peter Bone (Wellingborough) urged Speaker John Bercow to "make this farce stop" and prevent further votes. But there were cheers in the chamber when the result was revealed at almost 11.30pm, after the legislation passed through all stages in the Commons in a single day. Speaking after the result Ms Cooper said it has been a "very considered and thoughtful debate throughout", and that MPs had "voted again to make clear the real concerns that there would be about a chaotic and damaging no deal". She said the Bill would "support the Prime Minister's commitment to make sure we don't end up with no deal on April 12". Ms Cooper added: "I'm sure that we will be very keen to work with Government to make sure that this legislation progresses in a way that is sensible and works in the national interest." But Tory MP Mark Francois (Rayleigh and Wickford) reacted to the Bill's passing with anger, calling it a "constitutional outrage". The leading Brexiteer said it had been "rammed through in four hours", and then quoting from the bible, added: "The public won't be impressed by this. Forgive them father they know not what they do." The Bill will now undergo further scrutiny in the Lords at a later date, potentially as early as Thursday. A Government spokesman said in a statement: "We are disappointed that MPs have chosen to back this Bill. "The Prime Minister has already set out a clear process through which we can leave the European Union with a deal and we have already committed to seeking a further extension. "If passed, this Bill would place a severe constraint on the Government's ability to negotiate an extension and reflect this new date in UK statute books before April 12." BRUSSELS, April 3 -- The European Council and the Parliament announced on Wednesday that, after Brexit, UK citizens coming to the Schengen area for a short stay (90 days in any 180 days) should be granted visa free travel. The agreement, which was already confirmed by EU ambassadors on behalf of the Council on Tuesday, was approved by the European Parliament Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee on Wednesday. The text now needs to be formally adopted by the European Parliament and the Council. According to EU rules, visa exemption is granted on condition of reciprocity. And the British government has stated that it does not intend to require a visa from EU citizens travelling to the UK for short stays. The European Commission would monitor the respect of the principle of reciprocity on a continuous basis and immediately inform the European Parliament and the Council of any developments which could endanger the respect of this principle. LONDON, April 3 -- Prime Minister Theresa May was to meet Wednesday with Britain's main opposition party leader in a bid to forge a Brexit compromise that avoids a dreaded "no-deal" departure from the EU in nine days. May decided to tear up her steadfast negotiating strategy and seek Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's support in a moment of peril for both her country and government. Her divorce deal with the other 27 EU nations has been rejected three times by parliament and patience with London is wearing thin in Brussels as the 46-year partnership nears a potentially chaotic end. The premier emerged from an intense seven-hour meeting with her ministers Tuesday to announce she would seek another "short" Brexit extension at an EU leaders' summit in Brussels on April 10. She crucially added that she was now willing to bend her previous principles and would listen to proposals for much closer post-Brexit relations with the EU than most in her Conservative party are ready to accept. "I think there are actually a number of areas that we agree on in relation to Brexit," May told a rowdy question-and-answer session in parliament. "What we want to do now is to find a way forward that can command the support in this House and deliver on Brexit." She specifically did not rule out remaining in a customs union with the European Union -- a key Labour demand that she has until now dismissed out of hand. 'Known Marxist' The British premier's last-minute change of tack has been received cautiously by EU leaders who would love to see the agonising split resolved by the time European Parliament elections roll around at the end of May. EU president Donald Tusk tweeted Tuesday that even if "we don't know what the end result will be, let us be patient". But it enraged the staunchly pro-Brexit wing of her Conservative party and saw junior minister Nigel Adams resigned in protest at May's "grave error" in judgement. Fervent EU critic Jacob Rees-Mogg said the prime minister's decision to seek an alliance with Corbyn meant she was collaborating with a "known Marxist". But other prominent Brexit-backing ministers were holding their fire as all eyes turned on the outcome of May's first meaningful engagement with her top domestic rival in years. Closer union Corbyn has sought to keep Britain in a European customs union after Brexit enters into force. May's government has previously rejected this because it would keep Britain from striking its own trade agreements with giant nations such as China and the United States. Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said Wednesday that May was entering her talks with Corbyn "without preconditions". Barclay said failure by May and Corbyn to reach a compromise would see the two sides try to come up with some mutually-acceptable options that would be put up for a vote in parliament in the coming days. He said these would be "binding" on the government -- even if parliament came out in favour of the customs union being added to May's existing deal. "Ultimately, if that is where the numbers of the House of Commons go, the government would -- in order to bring this to a resolution in the national interest -- would accept what the House voted for," Barclay said in reference to a customs union. Fears ease EU leaders have warned they will want clear answers from May in Brussels about what the new extension was for. The timeframe she laid out Tuesday is meant to see Britain leave the bloc on May 22 -- the day before the first nations holds its European Parliament vote. May's spokesman conceded that Britain would still probably have to prepare for elections just in case. Britain must formally notify electoral authorities of its participation in the vote on April 11. "But it's also the case that right up until the moment of the poll you can stop your participation," May's spokesman said. Cross-party lawmakers will try to rush a law through the parliament later Wednesday aimed at making sure that Britain does not leave the bloc without a deal. The British pound rallied Wednesday on expectations of the sides managing to avoid a messy breakup in the coming days. "Not only did May reaffirm her opposition to no deal, she's technically opened the door to a softer Brexit," Oanda trading house analyst Craig Erlam said. LONDON, April 3 -- The resignation comes just a day after Jeremy Corbyn, the head of the Labour Party, agreed to meet with UK Prime Minister Theresa May in order to discuss the Brexit process after the House of Commons rejected May's withdrawal plan several times. Nigel Adams, a Wales Minister and whip, stated on Wednesday that Theresa May's decision to shift towards a softer Brexit and start talks with Jeremy Corbyn was a "grave error". According to him, now it is clear that the United Kingdom will "end up in the customs union". "That is not the Brexit my constituents were promised, and it is contrary to the pledge we made in our manifesto", Adams said. "I believe we have two great challenges. We must deliver the Brexit the people voted for. And we must prevent the calamity of a Corbyn government", he added, stressing that the country is "at risk of simultaneously failing in both". |
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