Do what’s right for Britain, May urges

LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned lawmakers that failure to back her plan to leave the EU would be catastrophic for Britain, in a plea for support ahead of a vote in parliament that she is expected to lose.

Lawmakers are set to vote on May’s Brexit deal tomorrow, after she shelved plans for a vote in last month when it became clear that not enough lawmakers from her own party or others would back the deal she agreed with Brussels.

May looks little closer to securing the support she needs, but writing in the Sunday Express, she said lawmakers must not let down the people who voted for Brexit.

“Doing so would be a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy,” May said.

“So my message to Parliament this weekend is simple: it is time to forget the games and do what is right for our country.”

On Friday, her foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said Brexit might not happen if May’s deal was defeated.

Britain, the world’s fifth largest economy, is scheduled to quit the EU on March 29. |