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UK government in Mayhem over Brexit

Brussels is pressuring Mrs May to expedite negotiations, whether her team is ready or not.

Published Mon, Jul 17, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    THE United Kingdom and EU enter from Monday to Friday into their first full week of formal Brexit negotiations in Brussels. Following June's UK general election, there are growing signs that the challenges of the exit process may prove too great for Theresa May's fragile minority government to withstand.

    This has created a political paradox whereby there is growing domestic pressure, post-election, for a soft Brexit. Yet, the weakness of May's administration means it may not now be resilient enough to survive the course of negotiations, raising the odds that the nation may leave the EU with the hardest and most disorderly of all exits. That is, without any deal over the UK's future relationship with the continent, especially over trade.

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