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WORLD NEWS Monday 19 noveMber 2018

UK leader warns ousting her won’t make Brexit talks easier

By SYLVIA HUI ship challenge vote. as planned on March 29,
Associated Press Asked about the attacks di- but remaining inside the
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s rected at her, May said: “It bloc’s single market and
besieged Prime Minis- doesn’t distract me. Politics bound by its rules until the
ter Theresa May warned is a tough business and I’ve end of December 2020.
Sunday that a leadership been in it for a long time.” It also commits the two
change wouldn’t make Dominic Raab, who quit sides to the contentious
Brexit negotiations easier, Thursday as Brexit secre- “backstop” solution, which
as opponents in her Con- tary, said “there is one thing would keep the U.K. in a
servative Party threaten to missing and that is political customs arrangement with
unseat her and the former will and resolve.” the EU until a permanent
Brexit secretary suggested “If we cannot close this trade treaty is worked out.
she failed to stand up to deal on reasonable terms, That will serve to guarantee
bullying from European we need to be very hon- that the border between
Union officials. est with the country that the U.K.’s Northern Ireland
As furious Conservative reb- Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May takes a drink of water we will not be bribed and and EU member Ireland
els try to gather the num- during a press conference inside 10 Downing Street in London, blackmailed or bullied and remained free of customs
bers to trigger a no-confi- Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. we will walk away,” he told checkpoints after Brexit.
dence vote, May insisted Associated Press the Sunday Times. Both Britain and the EU
she hadn’t considered quit- Brexit talks, and that she aged by both the opposi- Many pro-Brexit Conserva- want to ensure Northern
ting. will be travelling to Brussels tion and large chunks of tives want a clean break Ireland’s hard-won peace
“A change of leadership to meet with EU leaders May’s own Conservatives. with the EU and argue that process isn’t undermined,
at this point isn’t going to before an emergency Eu- Two Cabinet ministers and the close trade ties be- but reaching an agree-
make the negotiations any ropean Council summit on several junior government tween the U.K. and the EU ment on how to achieve
easier and it isn’t going to Nov. 25. members quit, and more called for in the deal would that had long been a key
change the parliamentary An announcement this than 20 lawmakers have leave Britain a vassal state, obstacle in the negotia-
arithmetic,” she told Sky week that Britain has struck submitted letters of no con- with no way to indepen- tions. Opposition leader
News in an interview. a draft divorce agree- fidence in May. Forty-eight dently disentangle itself Jeremy Corbyn called the
May added that the next ment with the EU triggered such letters — or 15 percent from the bloc. deal a “one-way agree-
seven days “are going to a political crisis in Britain, of Conservative lawmakers The draft agreement envi- ment” in which the EU “calls
be critical” for successful with the deal roundly sav- — are needed for a leader- sions Britain leaving the EU all the shots.”.q