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IANS | 13 Mar, 2019
UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday said she will vote against a
no-deal Brexit at the end of the month as she warned MPs that they faced
"hard choices" after rejecting her deal for a second time.
Battling
a sore throat during Prime Minister's Questions, she insisted the UK
can still leave the EU with a "good deal" and that she understood "the
voice of the country" on Brexit, the BBC reported.
UK MPs will
vote at 19.00 GMT Thursday (12.30 a.m.) on whether to block the UK from
leaving the EU without an agreement later this month.
Wednesday's
vote will only apply to the March 29 deadline and would not rule out
the prospect of a no-deal exit later this year, if Parliament is
ultimately unable to agree a way forward.
After the House of
Commons rejected May's Brexit deal by 149 votes on Tuesday, the EU
warned the risk of a "disorderly" Brexit had never been higher.
Its
chief negotiator Michel Barnier said the EU "cannot go any further" in
trying to persuade MPs to back the agreed terms of exit and the UK had
to break the impasse.
May on Wednesday faced renewed pressure
from opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to abandon her "dead"
departure plan. He called on the Premier to change course after the
defeat. He said the deal had been "decisively rejected" and it was time
for May to change her red lines.
"The Prime Minister has been
stubbornly declaring that the only choice is between her deal and no
deal," Corbyn said. "Last night's vote finished off her deal. Tonight
she's not even showing the leadership to whip on no deal."
Corbyn
asked which way May would vote on the government motion, for which
Conservative MPs will have a free vote. She replied: "I will be voting
for the motion standing in my name."
Dismissing calls from Tory
MPs to embrace a no-deal exit now, May said her deal remained the best
way to honour the 2016 referendum result. "I may not have my own voice
but I understand the voice of the country."
"I believe we have a
good deal. No deal is better than a bad deal but I have been working for
us to leave on March 29 and leave with a good deal."
The EU urged the UK to take "responsibility" for its actions.
"Again
the House of Commons says what it doesn't want. Now this impasse can
only be solved in the UK," Barnier told the European Parliament.
The
EU, he suggested, had gone "as far as it possibly can" to satisfy MPs'
concerns over the agreement, particularly in relation to the backstop,
an insurance policy to stop a hard border on the island of Ireland.
"If
the UK still wants to leave the EU in an orderly manner, this treaty
is, and will remain, the only treaty possible," he said.
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Customs Exchange Rates |
Currency |
Import |
Export |
US Dollar
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66.20
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64.50 |
UK Pound
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87.50
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84.65 |
Euro
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78.25
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75.65 |
Japanese
Yen |
58.85 |
56.85 |
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