U.K. Lawmakers Ratchet Up Campaign to Avert No-Deal Brexit
- Some 209 MPs write to May urging her to rule option out
- May defends Brexit deal, warns of second referendum risk
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Lawmakers called on Theresa May to rule out a no-deal Brexit, stepping up a campaign against an outcome they say threatens the livelihoods of voters.
“Manufacturing plants employ thousands of our constituents and their jobs will be put at immediate risk if the United Kingdom leaves the European Union with no deal,” some 209 lawmakers from both May’s Conservatives and opposition parties wrote in a letter to her. It “would cause unnecessary economic damage.”