In a bit to save her Brexit deal which was voted against by MPs last week, Theresa May has put together six “lessons” after a week-long talks towards saving Britain from the red lines of a no-deal Brexit from the EU.
In her latest submission she is given a waiver of the planned £65 settled status application for EU nationals currently residing in the UK, but she has refused to accept a second referendum and an article 50 extension.
In the revised Brexit strategy by Theresa May’s and the fee waiver suggested by her, she suggested that the only way to prevent a no-deal Brexit is to vote through a deal or outright revocation of article 50.
Despite the historic defeat suffered at the Commons chamber last week, Theresa May has stuck to her guns that her Brexit plan is the only reasonable option to prevent a no-deal Brexit. This has led to the anger of politicians and political commentators because she has toed this line so many months and it seems to get anywhere couple with her refusal to provide a viable plan B.
The UK Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn who had been facing criticism from all angles for refusing to meet with Theresa may unless she do away with a no-deal Brexit has referred to the Brexit process as a “Groundhog Day”.
The rhetoric statements flying everywhere in the air has made the Sun’s Steve Hawkes and The London Evening Standard’s Nicholas Cecil to wonder if they had notice a change in Theresa May’s body language on the UK’s finally exiting the EU on 29th March.
Norman Smith of the BBC in a tweeted that Theresa May had left a chink open on the subject of joining permanent custom with the EU despite previously ruling it out completely.
According to the BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, Theresa May is not the kind of politician you will expect to tear up her Plan A in a hurry no matter how irritating others might see it even if his own ministers thinks the same. Theresa May still strongly believe that it is better at this stage for her to pursue a strategy that might just about conceivably see, in the end after a lot more wrangling, a version of her deal squeak through the House of Commons with support from her own MPs and having kissed and made up with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
However, Theresa May’s refusal to do away with a possible no-deal Brexit and the hope achieving her goal from the support of Brexiteers and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) can only be seen by many as a very risky strategy.
The Work and Pension Secretary, Amber Rudd has warned that several ministers may resign next week if Tory MPs are banned from voting of plans that are geared toward stopping a no-deal Brexit. The Tory leadership hopeful has told the prime minister’s office that that it should offer a free vote on the issue as a way of forcing all Tory MPs to show their view on Brexit issues, rather than just waiting while the prime minister attempts to delay key decisions for another round of Brexit negotiations and winding down the clock.
A series of amendments aimed at taking a no-deal Brexit off the table, extending article 50 and even handing control of the process to parliamentarians could ultimately box May into a corner, making a soft Brexit more likely and her position within the Tory party untenable.
