Instead, May will turn her fire at the EU in a speech delivered from the Brexit stronghold of Grimbsy in Lincolnshire, saying: “Just as MPs will face a big choice next week, the EU has to make a choice too. “It is in the European interest for the UK to leave with a deal. One Conservative former cabinet minister said it was “like the last days of Rome” and it was difficult to see how May would last many more weeks, even if her Brexit deal scraped through under heavy pressure. The prime minister would then return to the House of Commons for a third time to put those proposals to a vote. “It will get very, very nasty next week,” said one source close to a cabinet minister.

Source: The Guardian March 07, 2019 22:30 UTC