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Brexit: Theresa May Faces Showdown with Pro-EU Rebels

Brexit: Theresa May Faces Showdown with Pro-EU Rebels
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British Prime Minister Theresa May will be facing a showdown with her pro-EU MPs on Wednesday over parliament's role in the final Brexit deal, which could influence her entire negotiation strategy.

Brexit: Theresa May Faces Showdown with Pro-EU Rebels

British MPs will vote on amendments to the EU [Withdrawal] Bill setting out how much power lawmakers will have if the government fails to agree a departure deal before Brexit in March 2019.

May said she expects to get an agreement with Brussels, but warned that any attempt to tie her hands could undermine the ongoing negotiations.

She averted a rebellion by pro-EU MPs in her Conservative Party on the issue of parliamentary powers last week with a promise of a compromise, but within days they had rejected her proposal as inadequate.

Instead they worked with peers to introduce their own amendment to the unelected upper House of Lords, which agreed it by a landslide on Monday.

The amendment now returns to MPs in the elected lower House of Commons, where Conservative rebels will ally with opposition parties in a bid to finally make it law.

May's spokesman refused to say if he believes the government has the numbers to win the vote, but made clear that no more concessions would be forthcoming.

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