The Week UK – 22 December 2018
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English | 64 pages | True PDF | 12.4 MB
EUROPE SAYS "NO" ARE WE HEADING FOR A SECOND VOTE?
Earlier in the week, May had travelled to an EU summit in Brussels in the hopes of securing fresh concessions that might help her sell her deal to her party. However, EU leaders declined to oblige and May had a heated exchange with Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president, after he reportedly called her demands “nebulous”. Yet the PM said she still hoped to secure “further political and legal assurances” from the EU in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister rejected the idea of holding a second Brexit referendum. Calls for such a vote have been growing among MPs, who claim it’s the only way of breaking the parliamentary deadlock.