Chaotic Brexit drama shakes U.K. as battle over ‘Leave’ deal goes down to the wire

Fear of what might happen if the deal isn’t agreed to may be May’s best hope for securing it.

‘No one knows what will happen if this deal doesn’t pass,’ British Prime Minister Theresa May, pictured in Ottawa last year, has warned. A parliamentary vote on the Brexit agreement is set to take place Dec. 11. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 28, 2018

OTTAWA—One has to wonder what keeps British Prime Minister Theresa May going. Never a fan of Brexit to begin with, May inherited the job of extricating the United Kingdom from 40 years of European Union membership—all based on a narrowly approved Leave vote in the 2016 referendum. After 500-pl...

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