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WORLD NEWS Monday 17 SepteMber 2018

UK leader: Talk of leadership

during Brexit ‘irritating’

By GREGORY KATZ night to discuss her possible Writing in The Observer,
Associated Press ouster. Khan said Britain faces ei-
LONDON (AP) — British In the interview, May said ther a bad deal or no deal
Prime Minister Theresa May the leadership talk can be at all — options he said are
concedes that she gets distracting. “incredibly risky.”
“irritated” by the debate “I get a little bit irritated, but He said the public deserves
over her leadership during this debate is not about my a right to choose between
the difficult Brexit negotia- future. This debate is about any deal reached by the
tions. the future of the people of government or staying in
She told the BBC in an in- the U.K. and the future of the EU. He said that if no
terview scheduled to be the United Kingdom,” she deal is reach, the public
broadcast Monday that said. “That’s what I’m fo- should be able to choose
she is concerned for the cused on, and that’s what between the “no deal”
country’s future, not her we should all be focused scenario or remaining in In this July 24, 2018 file photo, British Prime Minister Theresa May
own, as talks about Britain’s on.” The opposition Labour the bloc. listens at the start of her meeting with the Qatar’s emir at 10
upcoming exit from the Eu- Party is also increasingly di- The mayor’s stance is ex- Downing Street in London.
ropean Union continue. vided over the Brexit issue. pected to put more pres- Associated Press
May faces a split in her London Mayor Sadiq Khan sure on Corbyn at the La- plan to keep some close caused a furor by compar-
Conservative Party, with broke ranks on Sunday with bour Party conference lat- ties to the EU after Brexit. ing May’s Brexit strategy to
some influential figures pre- party leader Jeremy Cor- er this month. Johnson, who is seen by a “suicide vest.”
ferring a more complete byn to publicly back a sec- In her interview, May criti- many analysts as position- “I have to say that that
break with the EU than she ond referendum of wheth- cized former Foreign Secre- ing himself as a possible choice of language is
is advocating. Roughly 50 er Britain should go forward tary Boris Johnson, who re- successor to the embattled completely inappropriate,”
hard-liners met Tuesday with plans to leave the EU. signed in July to protest her prime minister, recently May said.q

Roads shut after 2 fall ill in U.K. city where ex-spy poisoned

LONDON (AP) — British unconscious on a bench rant in Salisbury was under
police closed roads and in March. Its residents were investigation. “As a pre-
called a hazardous re- put back on edge in June cautionary measure, the
sponse team Sunday night when a man and a woman restaurant and surrounding
after two people became living in a nearby town was roads have been cordoned
ill at a restaurant in the Eng- hospitalized with signs of off while officers attend the
lish city where a Russian ex- exposure to the same Sovi- scene and establish the
spy and his daughter were et-made nerve agent, Nov- circumstances surrounding
poisoned with a chemical ichok. The woman, 44-year- what has led them to fall
nerve agent. old Dawn Sturgess, died. ill,” Wiltshire police said in a
Wiltshire Police described Britain’s counter-terrorism statement.
the emergency steps tak- police said this month they British prosecutors have
en in response to “a medi- think Sturgess’ boyfriend charged two Russian men
cal incident” in Salisbury as found a counterfeit per- in absentia with poison-
precautions. The city spent fume bottle containing ing Sergei Skripal and his
months with quarantine remnants of the substance daughter, Yulia. They have
tents and investigators in originally applied on the Emergency services personnel stage outside Prezzo restaurant, alleged Alexander Petrov
full-body protective gear front door of Skripals home Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, in Salisbury, United Kingdom, where and Ruslan Boshirov were
combing for evidence af- in Salisbury. The conditions police have closed streets as a “precautionary measure” after Russian intelligence agents,
two people were taken ill from the restaurant, amid heightened
ter Sergei Skripal and his of a man and woman who tensions after the Novichok poisonings earlier in the year. which they and Moscow
adult daughter were found got sick at Prezzo restau- Associated Press have denied.q