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May calls for cabinet showdown as MPs reject all Brexit options

2019-04-02 10:56:53       source:The Guardian

April 1, 2019


Theresa May will summon her warring cabinet to Downing Street for a five-hour showdown on Tuesday after parliament once again failed to coalesce behind any alternative to her rejected Brexit deal.


Three options – a common market, a customs union and a second referendum – were all narrowly rejected in the process of indicative votes, prompting renewed talk of a swift general election.


After Conservative MPs failed to support any option in sufficient numbers, there were immediate recriminations in the House of Commons chamber.


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