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May fights back against critics amid Brexit upheaval
ALASTAIR GRANT I Associated Press
Pro and anti Brexit protesters hold placards as they vie for media attention
near Parliament in London, Friday, Nov. 16.
BY SYLVIA HUI
Associated Press
LONDON — British Prime Min
ister Theresa May fought back
against critics of her Brexit deal
Saturday, telling opponents within
her party their alternative plans
for Britain’s departure from the
European Union wouldn’t
work.
May is battling to win
over rebels in her Con
servative Party and and
to preserve her position
as prime minister after
a grueling week in which
party members plotted
to oust her and two Cabi- May
net ministers quit within
hours of her government striking
the long-sought divorce agreement
with the EU.
In a public relations offensive,
May revealed in a Daily Mail inter
view how her husband supported
her during “a pretty heavy couple
of days.”
Calling her husband, Philip,
her “rock,” May said that when
the Conservative revolt erupted
Wednesday, the first thing he did
was pour her a whisky.
She also laid into political oppo
nents, saying their ideas for resolv
ing the biggest stumbling block in
EU-U.K. negotiations — avoiding
a hard border between North
ern Ireland and the Republic of
Ireland after Brexit — wouldn’t
resolve the problem.
“People say, ‘If you
could only just do some
thing slightly different,
have a Norway model or
a Canada model, this back
stop issue would go away.’
It would not. That issue is
still going to be there, ” May
said in the interview, pub
lished Saturday.
“Some politicians get so
embroiled in the intricacies of their
argument they forget it is not about
this theory or that theory, or does
it make me look good,” she added.
While May appeared to have sur
vived the week, her headaches are
far from over. Disaffected “Brexi-
teers” think they have the numbers
required to trigger a challenge to
her leadership within days.
They are aiming for 48 letters of
no confidence, the number needed
for a vote under Conservative
Party rules. So far, more than 20
lawmakers have publicly said they
submitted such letters.
One of them, Mark Francois,
complained that May’s draft deal
would leave Britain with the worst
outcome — “half in and half out”
of the EU. He said it would never
be approved in Parliament, where
May’s Conservatives do not have a
majority.
Like Francois, many pro-Brexit
Conservatives are pushing for
a clean break with the EU and
argue that the close trade ties
between the U.K. and the EU
called for in the deal would leave
Britain a vassal state.
As it stands, the draft agreement
sees Britain leaving the EU as
planned on March 29 but remain
ing inside the bloc’s single market
and bound by its rules until the end
of 2020.
It also commits the two sides to
the contentious “backstop” solu
tion, which would keep the U.K.
in a customs arrangement with
the EU as a guarantee the Irish
border remained free of customs
checkpoints.
British media reported that sev
eral pro-Brexit senior Conserva
tives, including House of Commons
leader Andrea Leadsom, were try
ing to persuade May to renegotiate
the divorce deal in a way they find
more acceptable.
Leadsom told Sky News Satur
day “there is still more to be done”
to get “the best possible deal for
the U.K.” before the draft with
drawal agreement is signed off
on Nov. 25 in Brussels. She didn’t
elaborate.
The deal also requires approval
from Britain’s Parliament before
the U.K. leaves the bloc.
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