Reuters:

Prime Minister Theresa May faced the prospect of a historic defeat in a vote on her Brexit deal in parliament on Tuesday plunging plans for Britain’s biggest political and economic change for decades into deeper uncertainty.

Barely two-and-a-half months before Britain is due to leave the European Union, May’s expected defeat would open a range of outcomes, from resurrecting her deal, to leaving the EU with no deal or holding another referendum that could halt Brexit.

The prime minister’s hopes of keeping her widely unpopular plan alive, and staying in her job, will hinge on the scale of her expected loss: defeat by a huge margin would make it harder to take the plan back to parliament for another vote.

Even before the deal comes up for a vote, the opposition Labour Party will try to derail it by forcing a through a change which would reject the divorce agreement and seek to rule out the possibility of leaving without a deal.

Just hours before the vote, May was meeting Conservative lawmakers to try to persuade them to support her agreement.

As Britain’s deepest political crisis for at least half a century built to a head, a spokesman for May said the prime minister was standing by her deal.

Go to link