The leader of a pro-Brexit faction in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conse...
LONDON - The leader of a pro-Brexit faction in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party on Wednesday scaled back his opposition to her deal for leaving the European Union ahead of a vote on the agreement next month. Jacob Rees-Mogg said he would no longer insist that the so-called Northern Irish backstop be removed as a condition for his support and other legal ways might ensure it was not permanent.
With parliament divided on how to proceed on Brexit, Rees-Mogg’s European Research Group of anti-EU members of parliament in the Conservative Party is key to the outcome of Brexit. May on Tuesday paved the way for a delay to Brexit until June from its planned date of March 29 if she loses the latest vote on her divorce deal next month.
Rees-Mogg told Sky News he thought an extension of the formal two-year Brexit negotiation period was likely after May opened the possibility of a delay until June. “For us it is important that something substantially new would be put on the table to justify a delay. Then we would all have to vote on it,” Germany’s European Affairs Minister Michael Roth said.“No one wants to punish the Britons, if we can achieve something with a delay, we would be the last ones to stand in the way,” he said.
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