Theresa May Faces Cabinet Showdown Over Brexit Deal

Theresa May Faces Cabinet Showdown Over Brexit Deal

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May was to preside over a decisive extraordinary Cabinet meeting on Wednesday in which she was supposed to seek the backing of her ministers for a draft technical deal struck between the UK and the EU on Brexit. Theresa May was scheduled to meet Conservative Party frontbenchers at her official Downing Street residence at around 2 p.m. following the weekly Prime Minister’s questions session at the House of Commons, the BBC reported.

The Tory PM, whose executive wields a minority in the Commons and stays afloat with the confidence and supply of the right-wing Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), met her ministers individually late into Monday to brief them on the roughly 500-page draft deal with Brussels. She faces the considerable challenge of securing the support of the pro-Brexit ministers in her Cabinet, which includes powerful voices like the Secretary for International Trade Liam Fox and Environment Secretary Michael Gove, as well as those seen as having a tendency towards remaining in the EU. Numerous political analysts suggested that failure to strike an agreement in the Cabinet meeting would cast doubt on May’s future in office. (IANS)

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