DUP will not support May if third meaningful vote on Brexit tabled |
— Arlene Foster March 27, 2019 Leader Arlene Foster said the Brexit deal would endanger the union of the UK as she made clear her party could still not support the British Prime Minister's Withdrawal Agreement.
"The backstop if operational has the potential to create an internal trade border within the United Kingdom and would cut us off from our main internal market, being Great Britain. It comes as British MPs are being polled on a variety of Brexit plans this evening in a bid to break the paralysis in parliament.
There were signs that the prime minister was winning over some Tory rebels in her last-ditch bid to force her EU Withdrawal Agreement through parliament by Friday's deadline. The agreement, and a political declaration on future EU/UK relations, must be passed by Friday if the UK is to benefit from an automatic delay in the date of Brexit to 22 May.Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson hinted he might be ready to swing behind Mrs May's deal, telling an audience of Daily Telegraph readers: "If we vote it down again, for the third time, there is now, I think, an appreciable risk that we will not leave at all.
Conservative MP Nigel Evans, a joint executive secretary of the 1922 Committee, made an open call for Mrs May to "give the timetable for her departure" at the meeting. There was speculation the party would back a motion tabled in the name of former foreign secretary Dame Margaret Beckett, requiring a public vote before ratification of any Brexit deal, after shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry predicted it would be "popular".
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