Back May's Brexit deal, leading EU conservative urges British MPs

Manfred Weber, the lead candidate of the conservative European People's Party for this year's European Parliament elections, called on Britain's legislators to back the withdrawal agreement reached between London and Brussels in a vote tomorrow.

"We invite our British friends to accept this offer," he told reporters at a meeting of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats' parliamentary caucus. Weber, a senior European lawmaker, said the European parliament was ready to ratify the deal.