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Ahead of vote, UK PM May warns it would be catastrophic to halt Brexit

Ersin Çelik
16:22 - 13/01/2019 Sunday
Update: 16:31 - 13/01/2019 Sunday
REUTERS
Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats Vince Cable and Britain's Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay appear on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, in London, Britain.
Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats Vince Cable and Britain's Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay appear on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, in London, Britain.

Parliament Flexes Muscles

After a week in which parliament forced the government to promise to come back with a 'plan B' within days if May's deal is rejected, Barclay said the risk of parliament acting in a way that frustrates Brexit had increased.

The Sunday Times reported that rebel lawmakers were planning to wrest control of the legislative agenda away from May next week with a view to suspending or delaying Brexit, citing a senior government source.

Vince Cable, the leader of the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, said parliament would act to prevent a no deal Brexit, and could ultimately seek to prevent Brexit altogether.

"I think parliament will take control of this process, will insist that we pursue the option of no Brexit," he told BBC TV.

Cable said this could be done by revoking Article 50, the mechanism which triggered the exit process, or by holding a second referendum.

Asked about the prospect of another referendum, Labour leader Corbyn told BBC TV:

"My own view is that I would rather get a negotiated deal now, if we can, to stop the danger of a no-deal exit from the EU on the 29th of March which would be catastrophic for industry, catastrophic for trade."

Corbyn said that if he forced a national election and his party won, Brexit may have to be delayed while they negotiated a new deal with the EU.

"An election would take place what February-March time, clearly there is only a few weeks then between that and the leave date, there would have to be a time for those negotiations," he added.

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