Pro-Brexit UK Lawmaker Says May's New Withdrawal Plan To Face Another Defeat In Parliament

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 23rd May, 2019) UK Conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is a leader of the pro-Brexit European Research Group (ERG), has suggested that the new Brexit plan proposed by Prime Minister Theresa May will face an even bigger defeat in the House of Commons than the original version of the agreement, which has been approved by the European Union but rejected by a margin of 230 lawmakers.

May presented her new version of the withdrawal deal earlier this week. The prime minister argued that if the parliamentarians backed her plan, they would be able to vote on a confirmatory Brexit referendum. May's move prompted criticism among lawmakers and officials. Moreover, the House of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has stepped down over disagreements with May while the opposition called for a snap general election.

"I don't think there's an occasion in history when a prime minister has lost anything like so heavily and has not recognized that that's a loss of confidence from the House of Commons and has not allowed someone else to take over .

.. I think, if she were to put the bill in the form she's proposed in the next week or two she would by even more than 230," Rees-Mogg told the ITV broadcaster.

Earlier this week, the lawmaker criticized May's new Brexit plan, saying it was worse than the previous proposal and suggesting that the United Kingdom would remain strongly linked to the European Union if it withdrew under May's plan B.

The United Kingdom was initially supposed to leave the European Union on March 29. A withdrawal deal was reached weeks before the date, but UK lawmakers have refused to pass it, with fears of a re-established hard border on the island of Ireland being one of the main points of concern. The Brexit deadline was subsequently moved to October 31.