Brexit impasse continues as May faces more House votes
NEVERENDUM REDUX Time for parliament to stop circus, says industry body
LONDON: Uncertainty loomed over the UK after the House of Commons on Tuesday again defeated the EU withdrawal deal stitched together by Prime Minister Theresa May and her team.
With businesses increasingly alarmed over the impasse, developments in Westminster sent the pound south.
Carolyn Fairbairn of the Confederation of British Industry said it is “time for parliament to stop this circus…enough is enough. This must be the last day of failed politics. A new approach is needed by all parties. Jobs and livelihoods depend on it”.
The revised agreement package, reached in Starsbourg on Monday evening, was rejected in the House of Commons by 391 to 242.
The House is scheduled to vote on Wednesday on a motion whether the UK should leave the EU on March 29 with or without an agreement. On Thursday it will vote on seeking from the EU an extension of the Article 50 beyond the deadline.
Opposition leader Jeremy Cor- byn insisted that May’s deal has failed: “She no longer has the ability to lead. This is a rudderless government in the face of a national crisis.”