No-Deal Brexit Risk Particularly High After Commons Rejects Withdrawal Agreement - Barnier

Sumaira FH Published January 16, 2019 | 01:24 PM

The European Union will maintain orderly Berxit as a priority, but no scenario, particularly, a no-deal exit, can now be excluded, after the UK House of Commons rejected the withdrawal agreement, the chief European negotiator for Brexit, Michel Barnier, said Wednesday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th January, 2019) The European Union will maintain orderly Berxit as a priority, but no scenario, particularly, a no-deal exit, can now be excluded, after the UK House of Commons rejected the withdrawal agreement, the chief European negotiator for Brexit, Michel Barnier, said Wednesday.

The deal was defeated in the UK parliament on Tuesday by 432 votes to 202.

"Orderly Brexit will remain our absolute priority in the coming weeks. Nevertheless, at this time, no scenario can be excluded. And that is particularly true for a scenario that we have always wanted to avoid, the no-deal one," Barnier said at a session of the European parliament.