May is savaged at home after delaying Brexit vote
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May drew widespread criticism on Monday after delaying a parliamentary vote on the Brexit deal she appeared certain to lose heavily. The Opposition Labour Party said Britain now no longer had a functioning government. «The govMay is savaged at home after delaying Brexit vote
UK Prime Minister Theresa May drew widespread criticism on Monday after delaying a parliamentary vote on the Brexit deal she appeared certain to lose heavily. The Opposition Labour Party said Britain now no longer had a functioning government. «The government has decided Theresa May's Brexit deal is so disastrous that it has taken the desperate step of delaying its own vote at the eleventh hour,» Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said in a statement. «We don't have a functioning government ... Labour's alternative plan for a jobs first deal must take centre stage in any future talks with Brussels.» Scotland Chief Minister Nichola Sturgeon said the Brexit deal should have gone before parliament immediately so that it could be voted down. The postponement, she said was «an act of pathetic cowardice by a government now collapsing under utter chaos». The deputy leader of the DUP, the N.Ireland party propping up the conservative government, said he would not welcome a no-deal Brexit, but was not afraid of one. The Northern Irish party said May needed to renegotiate her Brexit divorce, or be replaced by someone willing to change course. "What (the EU) need to be faced with is either... Read more