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UK PM May defends Brexit deal as opponents plot no-confidence vote

By Costas Pitas and Alistair Smout

 

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May holds a news conference at Downing Street in London, Britain November 15, 2018. Matt Dunham/Pool via Reuters

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May won the backing of the most prominent Brexiteer in her government on Friday as she fought to save a draft European Union divorce deal that has stirred up a plot to force her out of her job.

 

More than two years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU, it is still unclear how, on what terms or even if it will leave as planned on March 29, 2019.

 

Just hours after announcing that her senior ministers had collectively backed her divorce deal, May was thrust into her premiership's most perilous crisis when her Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab resigned on Thursday to oppose the agreement.

 

Other mutinous lawmakers in her party have openly spoken of ousting her and said the Brexit deal would not pass parliament.

 

But May, who has defiantly vowed to stay on as prime minister, got a rare boost on Friday when Michael Gove, the most prominent Brexit-supporting minister, gave his backing to her, saying he would stay on as environment minister.

 

Asked if he had confidence in May, Gove told reporters: "I absolutely do."

 

"I think it's absolutely vital that we focus on getting the right deal in the future, and making sure that in the areas that matter so much to the British people we can get a good outcome," said Gove, 51, a potential successor to May.

 

Trade minister Liam Fox, another leading Brexit supporter, joined Gove in backing May - but her future remains uncertain.

 

The first question she faced on an LBC radio phone-in show to defend her deal was from a caller who asked her to "respectfully stand down". She did not immediately address that part of the caller's question.

 

Stephen Barclay, a little-known junior health minister, was appointed as the new Brexit secretary, although the status of the role was downgraded from chief negotiator with May leading the completion of talks with the EU.

 

"We now need to keep up the momentum to finalise the Withdrawal Agreement and outline political declaration, and deliver a Brexit that works for the whole UK," Barclay tweeted.

 

May's spokesman said Barclay would have a domestic role. "The PM will be completing the last 10 days of negotiations," he said. Former interior minister Amber Rudd was named work and pensions secretary, replacing Esther McVey who also quit over the Brexit plan.

 

Sterling <GBP=D3>, which has see-sawed on Brexit news since the referendum, was up half a cent against the dollar at $1.2834 on Friday.

 

PLOTTERS

 

Politicians, officials and diplomats in London openly questioned how long May had left as speculation swirled that a leadership challenge could come soon.

 

Under Conservative Party rules, a vote must take place when 48 of her lawmakers submit letters to the party's so-called 1922 committee, chaired by a senior lawmaker, Graham Brady.

 

Influential Brexit-supporting lawmaker Steve Baker said rebels in May's party were close to that threshold. So far, at least 21 lawmakers have publicly said they have submitted letters, and others may have done so privately.

 

"I think we're probably not far off," said Baker, a key figure in the Brexit-backing wing of May's party. "I think it probably is imminent, yes," he told BBC TV.

 

British political correspondents reported that Gove, Fox and other pro-Brexit ministers would meet this weekend to amend May's deal. However, both the Irish and Dutch prime ministers said there was little scope to change the proposals.

 

Since she won the top job in the turmoil that followed the 2016 referendum, May's premiership has been characterised by obduracy in the face of frequent crises.

 

CONFIDENCE VOTE

 

Her de facto deputy, David Lidington, said she would win a vote of no confidence, in which she would need a simple majority of votes cast by conservative lawmakers: "If those letters were to go in, I think that she would win any such vote decisively, and she'd deserve to do so."

 

If her divorce deal is voted down, the ultimate outcome of Brexit would be uncertain. Other possible scenarios include May's deal ultimately winning approval in a new parliamentary vote; May losing her job; Britain leaving the bloc with no agreement; or even another referendum.

 

A snap poll by Survation of 1,070 voters for the Daily Mail newspaper found 49 percent of respondents opposed the deal and just 27 percent backed it.

 

The deal is due to be discussed at an EU summit on Nov. 25.

 

By seeking to preserve the closest possible ties with the EU, May has upset her party's many advocates of a clean break, and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which props up her minority government.

 

"They've raised some questions with us, they've raised some concerns with us and yes we are looking at those," May said. "We are still working with the DUP."

 

NIGHTMARE FOR BUSINESS?

 

The EU and Britain need an agreement to keep trade flowing between the world's biggest trading bloc and the United Kingdom, home to the biggest international financial centre.

 

May told LBC radio the threat of a no deal Brexit was personal as she is Type 1 diabetic: "I depend on insulin every day. My insulin is produced by a country elsewhere in the European Union."

 

May's spokeswoman said there had been strong business support for her draft deal.

 

But aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce's <RR.l> boss Warren East said <RR.L> his firm was pressing on with contingency plans, including "buffer stocks so that we have all the logistical capacity that we need to carry on running our business."

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-11-17

[OneMoreFarang]

This drags on and on and on. And everybody know since forever that the UK parliament will never approve that deal.

What's the point of talking about it again and again if it's anyhow dead?

 

Probably the people's vote should have two choices: Stay in he EU or crash out. Which one do you prefer? There are no other options.

[stag4]

Dream on with your losers vote, the people already had a vote, leave or remain in the EU. Remember?

[OneMoreFarang]

15 minutes ago, stag4 said:

Dream on with your losers vote, the people already had a vote, leave or remain in the EU. Remember?

I remember, they voted for that fantasy construct that it will be so easy to make so many great trade agreements with the rest of the world. And the fantasy that the EU will do everything the UK demands.

Do you remember that fantasy? That is what 52% of the people who voted voted for.

At least some of the people got smarter over the last years.

Now they should be able to look at which deal is available. And then decide if that deal is still as good as they dreamed it would be...

[beautifulthailand99]

31 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I remember, they voted for that fantasy construct that it will be so easy to make so many great trade agreements with the rest of the world. And the fantasy that the EU will do everything the UK demands.

Do you remember that fantasy? That is what 52% of the people who voted voted for.

At least some of the people got smarter over the last years.

Now they should be able to look at which deal is available. And then decide if that deal is still as good as they dreamed it would be...

aye - the Unicorns that's what I feel most betrayed over - after all they are on the Royal Crest so our sceptred isle must have had them once upon a time before Johnny foreigner invaded us umpteen times and stole our sovereignty.

[nong38]

They need 48 letters and the last I heard 23 arrived, this may actually secure her position now. Politics is a funny old game, most of them seem to be in for themselves rather than for the country or who voted for them.

Difficult to know exactly where we stand having had sight of the 585 page "deal" some say it the best we can get some say it does not deliver what people want which really gives two options if the deal cannot be improved and I don't think the EU want to do that. One is to reject it and at this late stage would mean a "no deal" and I think a lot would not mind that and I think we would find it difficult in the short term but would emerge stronger and independent of the EU. Two would be accept whats on offer and try and change it later, now I don't know which of the two options you would prefer. There are still some leavers in the cabinet who could push hard for the changes that would make it more acceptable.

I see Peter Shilton has taken the opposite view to his old England team mate on the issue although Peter will no doubt keep a lower profile.

[Thingamabob]

May is a disgrace and an insult to all Brits.

[vogie]

9 minutes ago, nong38 said:

They need 48 letters and the last I heard 23 arrived, this may actually secure her position now. Politics is a funny old game, most of them seem to be in for themselves rather than for the country or who voted for them.

Difficult to know exactly where we stand having had sight of the 585 page "deal" some say it the best we can get some say it does not deliver what people want which really gives two options if the deal cannot be improved and I don't think the EU want to do that. One is to reject it and at this late stage would mean a "no deal" and I think a lot would not mind that and I think we would find it difficult in the short term but would emerge stronger and independent of the EU. Two would be accept whats on offer and try and change it later, now I don't know which of the two options you would prefer. There are still some leavers in the cabinet who could push hard for the changes that would make it more acceptable.

I see Peter Shilton has taken the opposite view to his old England team mate on the issue although Peter will no doubt keep a lower profile.

23 have let it be known that they have offered their letter of no confidence, only the chief of the 1922 commitee knows the ones that have been tendered privately. 

[stag4]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I remember, they voted for that fantasy construct that it will be so easy to make so many great trade agreements with the rest of the world. And the fantasy that the EU will do everything the UK demands.

Do you remember that fantasy? That is what 52% of the people who voted voted for.

At least some of the people got smarter over the last years.

Now they should be able to look at which deal is available. And then decide if that deal is still as good as they dreamed it would be...

No, they voted to leave!

[nong38]

May may not be the greatest PM but right now she is in charge and hope she delivers what the people wanted and what they wanted was to leave the EU.

The people decided in 2016 to leave, you cannot have best of 3? Best of 5? that game only stops when the EU supporters win, the people who voted to remain should accept the result for good or bad, that's democracy, real democracy, anything else is the sort of politics you get in this part of the world which is run by people who have not been elected but think its their right to continue whatever, sounds familiar?