UK House to choose Brexit plan to give May
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British lawmakers yesterday debated multiple options for leaving the European Union as they sought to bring some clarity to the tortured Brexit process and stop the country tumbling out of the bloc within weeks with no exit plan in place.
In the wake of two overwhelming defeats for Prime Minister Theresa May鈥檚 withdrawal agreement with the EU, the House of Commons seized control of the parliamentary timetable for debate and votes on a range of Brexit alternatives.
House of Commons Speaker John Bercow selected eight widely differing options for votes from a list of 16 submitted by lawmakers. They include calls to leave the EU without a deal, to stay in the EU鈥檚 customs union and single market, to put any EU divorce deal to a public referendum, and to cancel Brexit if the prospect of a no-deal departure gets close.
The plan is for the most popular ideas to move to a second vote on Monday to find one option that can command a majority. Parliament would then instruct the government to negotiate it with the EU.
May has said she will consider the outcome of the votes, although she has refused to be bound by the result.
The government condemned lawmakers鈥 move to seize control because it upends the usual practice in which the government sets the timetable for debate and votes in parliament.
But Conservative lawmaker Oliver Letwin, one of those behind yesterday鈥檚 votes, said 鈥渢his is not an insurgency.鈥
鈥淭his process has come about as a result of the increasing concern that many of us have had across the House of Commons that we were heading not toward an approval of the prime minister鈥檚 deal, but also toward a no-deal exit,鈥 he said.
Almost three years after Britons voted to leave the EU, the date and terms of its departure are up in the air. May is under mounting pressure from pro-Brexit members of her Conservative Party to quit.
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