Senior UK lawmakers from the Conservative Party have called on PM Theresa May to postpone Tuesday’s vote on the Brexit deal unless the European Union agrees to major concessions in order to prevent another possible humiliating defeat in parliament, The Times newspaper reported on Monday, citing leading Tories in the Commons.
Senior Conservative lawmakers advised the prime minister in phone conversations that she should delay the vote and put forward a motion describing a divorce agreement that would finally heal divisions over the issue within May’s own party, according to The Times.
The first parliamentary vote on the divorce deal took place in January and resulted in May losing by an unprecedented 230-vote margin