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Post by Admin on Dec 13, 2018 17:48:00 GMT
Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will not lead the Conservative Party into the next general election. She said the party would prefer to "to go into that election with another leader", as she arrived in Brussels for an EU summit. After securing 63% of the total vote, she is now immune from a leadership challenge for a year. The prime minister won the confidence vote with a majority of 83, with 63% of Conservative MPs backing her and 37% voting against her. It confirms what she told MPs ahead of a confidence vote triggered by MPs angry at her Brexit policy. Mrs May won the vote but has vowed to listen to the concerns of the 37% of Tory MPs who voted against her. Prime Minister's Questions: 12 December 2018 UK Parliament Ms. May travelled to Brussels on Thursday for a summit of EU leaders and she urged them to change the Brexit agreement to help get it through the House of Commons. But, as the day progressed, it became clear the other leaders were willing to go only so far. Many expressed support for some kind of clarification to the agreement, but they stopped short of committing to major changes. “We cannot reopen a legal agreement, we can’t renegotiate something which has been negotiated over several months,” said French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2019 17:31:17 GMT
UK Prime Minister Theresa May gives a statement in the House of Commons in London on Monday, January 21 to put forward a motion in parliament on her proposed alternative plan for Brexit, after surviving a vote of no confidence in her leadership last week.
May survived the motion, which was put forward by opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, by 19 votes. The UK is set to leave the EU on March 29, 2019.
The backstop is the "insurance policy" in the withdrawal deal, intended to ensure that whatever else happens, there will be no return to a visible border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic after the UK leaves the EU.
Both the UK and the EU believe that bringing back border checks could put the peace process at risk. But a way of avoiding those checks has yet to win over MPs.
The DUP, which keeps Mrs May's minority government in power through a deal to support it in key votes, rejected her Brexit deal last Tuesday, but 24 hours later helped her see off a bid to oust her in a no confidence motion, saying it didn't want a change of government, just a change of policy.
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Post by Admin on Jan 26, 2019 17:49:12 GMT
Prime Minister's Questions: 23 January 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May answered MPs' questions on the Government's Brexit deal, mental health services for young people and more.
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2019 17:28:32 GMT
Theresa May says she understands "the voice of the country" on Brexit, despite her own vocals wavering.
Battling a sore throat at Prime Minister's Questions, she insisted the UK can still leave the EU with a "good deal" and said she would vote later to rule out a no-deal exit on 29 March.
But Mrs May warned MPs they faced "hard choices" having rejected her deal for a second time.
Jeremy Corbyn called on the PM to change course after the defeat.
He said the deal had been "decisively rejected" and it was time for the prime minister to change her red lines.
Theresa May puts a new backstop plan to her cabinet and the House of Commons as Jeremy Corbyn calls on MPs to reject the deal.
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Post by Admin on May 25, 2019 18:09:27 GMT
Tears welled in her eyes as she made her argument for just a little longer in Downing Street. She dabbed at her nose with a handkerchief. Yet the sympathy and patience of the 1922 Committee had run out. “She voiced her view about Brexit, which she regards as a debt of honour,” said one of those present. “She was emotional - a lot more emotional than I have ever seen her before. Over the following hour, Mrs May and her backbenchers hammered out a deal which means she will sit down with Sir Graham and Brandon Lewis, the Tory party chairman, in the first week of June to agree the timetable for the election of her successor. In practical terms, it means that Mrs May must resign by the end of June to allow enough time for the leadership election to run its course before Parliament rises for the summer. On Tuesday she tried to pull another trick out of her bag by announcing she would put the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation needed to allow Britain to leave the EU with a Brexit deal - to a vote in Parliament in the first week of June. Surely, she told the MPs, discussions on her future should wait until after then? This time, however, the backbenchers would allow no more prevarication. Regardless of whether or not her Bill passes, a leadership election would need to be announced in time to get a new leader in place before the summer recess, which usually starts at the end of July. One of those present said Mrs May argued for more time, saying she did not want her departure to be linked to the defeat of the Bill, as it would give MPs an incentive to vote it down specifically to get rid of her.
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