London

Brexit roils Parliament: For the first time in history, a British government has been found in contempt of Parliament. The legislature last month demanded that Prime Minister Theresa May’s government turn over all the legal advice it received on her proposed agreement on withdrawal from the EU. This week, the government offered only a summary of U.K. Attorney General Geoffrey Cox’s analysis, saying releasing the full document would be “contrary to the public interest.” Parliament disagreed, in a historic rebuke to the prime minister. Cox’s conclusions, now published, are likely to upset pro-Brexit MPs: He says that May’s deal will keep Northern Ireland in the EU customs union for many years, effectively splitting it from the rest of the U.K., which will leave the trading bloc. Northern Irish parliamentarians, whose votes are vital to May’s government, will not accept such an outcome, so her Brexit deal may be doomed.