UK Prime Minister Theresa May postponed the final vote on Brexit, thereby avoiding a parliamentary showdown, noting that she will head to Brussels to discuss “clear concerns” over the deal.
The Prime Minister confirmed in a statement to MPs that she had delayed the “meaningful vote” on the Brexit agreement with the EU, which had been previously scheduled for Tuesday night, saying she will instead head to an EU summit in Brussels this week to discuss the « clear concerns » of MPs about her deal’s so-called backstop arrangement, Sky News reported.
“If we went ahead and held the vote tomorrow the deal would be rejected by a significant margin,” May said, noting that the decision to defer the vote came in order to “not to divide the House at this time”.
May, who reportedly spent the whole weekend holding telephone calls with a series of EU leaders, including European Council President Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, still defended her deal.
