May Day: British leader’s respite won’t end Brexit mess
LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May is safe, for now. She has survived a no-confidence vote engineered by her own Conservative Party, and can’t be challenged again for a year. But that hasn’t brought Britain’s Brexit battle any closer to resolution.
May was in Brussels on Thursday, imploring European Union leaders help her sell the U.K.-EU divorce bill to a skeptical British Parliament.
U.K. lawmakers were supposed to approve the plan for Britain’s orderly departure from the 28-nation bloc in a vote on Tuesday, but May postponed it rather than face certain defeat.
With the EU insisting the withdrawal agreement can’t be reopened, May faces a struggle to win enough changes to assuage hostile British politicians.