Don’t write off the prime minister’s deal just yet
Everything is stacked against her, but Theresa May might get her Brexit plan through Parliament—eventually
IT TAKES A lot to unite the House of Commons in these fevered times. But Theresa May seems to have pulled it off. When she presented her Brexit deal to a packed House on November 26th, MPs of every shade of opinion rose up to denounce her. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the head of the hardline Brexiteers, and Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party, could at last agree that this was a pig’s ear of a deal, and a sell-out to boot.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Theresa agonistes”
Britain December 1st 2018
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