British Lawmakers Vote Against EU Deal, Throwing Brexit Into Chaos
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday suffered the biggest parliamentary reversal ever handed a sitting government, with lawmakers — including more than 100 rebels from her own ruling Conservative party — refusing to endorse a highly contentious Brexit deal. The government's defeat plunges into greater disarray Britain's scheduled March 29 divorce from the European Union. The much anticipated historic vote by the House of Commons of a draft deal, which took two years of ill-tempered haggling with European leaders to conclude... Читать дальше...