MAY SET TO LOSE AGAIN

Her last-minute changes to EU exit treaty is expected to fail in latest vote

PRIME Minister Theresa May faces another Brexit humiliation after two major eurosceptic factions in Parliament warned they would vote down her divorce deal because she had failed to win concessions from the European Union.

Just 18 days before the United Kingdom is due to leave the EU on March 29, May is scrambling — so far unsuccessfully — to secure last-minute changes to an EU exit treaty before Parliament votes today on approving the deal.

If the treaty, which was voted down in January, is defeated again, then lawmakers will vote tomorrow on leaving without a deal on March 29 and, if they reject that, then they will vote on the day after on delaying Brexit.

Nigel Dodds, deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, which props up May’s minority government, and Steve Baker, a leading figure in the large eurosceptic faction of her Conservative party, warned that May’s deal would be defeated.

European officials said there had been no breakthrough in talks over the weekend and expressed frustration with May’s attempts to secure concessions.

“May has boxed herself even deeper into a corner, it seems the second meaningful vote will go ahead on Tuesday (today), but it also seems like it won’t be the last meaningful vote on this,” one EU official said.

“We really want to be over with it now. It’s not going anywhere so even an extension is unlikely to break the impasse. There is not much patience or goodwill left on our side.”