Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been trying to quell a rebellion among lawmakers from his Conservative Party as the British Parliament prepared to vote on Brexit legislation that the government acknowledges would violate international law nyti.ms
U.K. government officials fear a rebel group of 21 lawmakers ejected from the ruling Conservative Party could try to derail Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal after most forced him to ask the EU for a delay on.wsj.com
Jo Johnson, who has always been on the more pragmatic and pro-European wing of the Conservative Party, had been growing increasingly uncomfortable in his brother’s government as it swung more forcefully in the direction of a no-deal Brexit. nyti.ms
Conservative former minister Dominic Grieve has suggested he and the government have run out of road over his call for a meaningful vote on any Brexit deal theneweuropean.co.uk t.co