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
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is threatening to purge lawmakers from his Conservative Party if they back a measure to forbid a no-deal Brexit. That could leave him powerless to control Parliament, necessitating a general election. nyti.ms
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is threatening to purge lawmakers from his Conservative Party if they back a measure to forbid a no-deal Brexit. That could leave him powerless to control Parliament, necessitating a general election. nyti.ms
Conservative lawmakers are concluding that Boris Johnson is the only one who can stop the hemorrhaging of support to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party and can ensure the party does not lose the next election to Labour. nyti.ms
Prime Minister Theresa May's departure threw the fate of Brexit into a new and unpredictable stage while setting off a bare-knuckled contest among Conservative lawmakers to replace her nyti.ms
“There was silence in the room and it was incredibly sad.” A former policy adviser to Theresa May described the moment the British prime minister implored fellow Conservative lawmakers to back her Brexit plan in return for her resignation. nyti.ms
U.K. Prime Minister May says she is prepared to quit if her Brexit deal passes, say conservative lawmakers, and gives no clear departure timing on.wsj.com
A faction of pro-Brexit lawmakers within the governing Conservative Party appeared unlikely to support Mrs. May’s deal after a group of its lawyers officially recommended that the lawmakers should not vote for it nyti.ms
Eleven rebels from Theresa May's Conservative Party joined opposition lawmakers to give Parliament the power to reject Brexit divorce terms she negotiates with the EU on.wsj.com
