MINISTER ISSUES WARNING ABOUT MAY’S BREXIT PLAN

LONDON Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan will fail to get through Parliament if Britain is left “trapped” in a Customs Union with the EU against its will, the government’s leader in the Commons has warned.

Andrea Leadsom, a leading Euroskeptic cabinet minister, warned that the EU cannot be allowed to stop Britain from leaving the union after Brexit. She said that any arrangement that gave the EU a power of veto would “fail to fulfil the will of the people expressed at the referendum” and be voted down.

Her stark warning came as the EU rejected May’s plan for an “independent mechanism” to oversee how the U.K. might leave a temporary customs arrangement if Brexit talks collapsed.