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Brexit: Time running out for UK's Theresa May

2019-05-24 09:19:56       source:The Aljazeera

May 24, 2019


London, United Kingdom - The political survival of Prime Minister Theresa May was hanging by a thread on Thursday after she was forced to abandon plans to publish a bill formalising the country's withdrawal from the European Union.


The Brexit bill was set to be published on Friday and would have represented her fourth attempt to get her deeply unpopular divorce deal through a divided Parliament.


But concessions to lure opposition MPs provoked a ferocious backlash in her Conservative Party.


The bill has become intimately linked to her survival, with calls for her to resign at fever pitch as she prepares on Friday to meet her party's kingmakers - and attention now focuses on the scale of the Conservatives' drubbing in Thursday's European Parliament elections.


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