THERESA MAY FACING CABINET SHOWDOWN OVER BREXIT DEAL
Theresa May is facing ‘judgment day’ on Brexit after securing a withdrawal agreement with Brussels.
After months of struggle and delay, feints and setbacks, Brexit negotiators for the United Kingdom and the European Union have finally produced a draft agreement that sets out how Britain will exit the political and economic union it helped create a generation ago.
The withdrawal deal, a technical tome written in euro-legalize and said to exceed 400 pages, will be discussed at an emergency cabinet meeting called by Prime Minister Theresa May for Wednesday afternoon.
May’s spokesman said cabinet ministers have been invited to begin reading the documents ahead of the meeting, where “next steps will be considered” over Britain’s exit from the world’s biggest and richest free trade zone.
What will happen at the cabinet meeting is unknown - although May’s supporters say the prime minister would not be presenting the draft deal if she didn’t think she could muscle it through.
It is possible, however, that some cabinet members, finally faced with the text of May’s softer, slower-moving compromise deal, will balk - and resign or seek delay or press for a return to the negotiating table.