London, March 29
Lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal for a third time on Friday, sounding its probable death knell and leaving Britain's withdrawal from the European Union in turmoil on the very day it was supposed to leave the bloc. The decision to reject a stripped-down version of May's divorce deal has left it totally unclear how, when or even whether Britain will leave the EU, and plunges the three-year Brexit crisis to a deeper level of uncertainty.
After a special sitting of parliament, lawmakers voted 344-286 against May's 585-page EU Withdrawal Agreement, agreed after two years of tortuous negotiations with the bloc.
May had told parliament the vote was the last opportunity to ensure Brexit would take place and cautioned that if the deal failed, then any further delay to Brexit would probably be a long one beyond April 12. "I fear we are reaching the limits of this process in this House," May told parliament after the defeat. "This House has rejected 'no deal'. It has rejected 'no Brexit'. On Wednesday it rejected all the variations of the deal on the table." "This government will continue to press the case for the orderly Brexit that the result of the referendum demands," she said.
EU calls crisis summit
Brussels: The European Union on Friday, summoned leaders to an extraordinary summit, warning that Britain is now "likely" to crash out of the bloc on April 12 without a Brexit deal.Within minutes of the vote, European Council President and summit chair Donald Tusk tweeted that the EU leaders will meet on April 10 to discuss Britain's departure from the bloc. — PTI
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