NR Daily: May at Bay, Part I

Theresa May returns from her three-day visit to China at the weekend to face two interlinked crises. The first is the threat that Brexit might be indefinitely postponed in a "transitional" period with no clear end in which Britain has to accept all the EU's rules and regulations with no part in making them. The second is that her leadership may shortly implode, resulting in a leadership election for a new Tory leader (and thus prime minister) amid general political uncertainty. What links these two crises is that many Tories on both sides of the Brexit debate blame the increasing problems of Brexit on her ...

February 03 2018

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