British Prime Minister Theresa May has on Sunday warned the members of parliament, who are preparing to vote down May’s proposed Brexit deal, that no-deal Brexit would be a “catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy”.
According to Reuters news reports, the British prime minister, fighting to save and pass her deal through the parliament with the bloc for more than 18 months of talks, told the lawmakers in a crunch parliamentary vote on Thursday, must not let down Brexit-backers who backed the deal in a referendum held in June 2016.
In the Sunday Express, May wrote: “Doing so would be a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy.”
She said: “So my message to Parliament this weekend is simple: it is time to forget the games and do what is right for our country.”
Brexit minister Stephen Barclay told BBC TV that urging lawmakers to support the Brexit deal would be “challenging” but if the deal gets rejected, the parliament would find the ultimate way to support something “along the lines of this deal”.
The Sunday Times reported that a group of senior cross-party backbench rebels are planning to change rules of House of Commons in order to enable them to secure government business if Brexit deal fails.
According to the newspaper, the plan, described as “a very British coup”, would see May losing control over a parliamentary business to the MPs including threats to her ability to govern.
Conservative MP Nick Boles said, “We have a mechanism which will give parliament control of the Brexit negotiations and ensure we do not leave the EU without a deal on March 29,” adding, “I am working on ways to achieve that outcome.”