But Parliament’s Brexit factions are still deadlocked, with competing plans and no clear majority for any of them. Steven Fielding, a professor of political history at the University of Nottingham, said Brexit has paralyzed the U.K.’s parliamentary system. “I cannot think of a moment in modern British politics that is at all comparable,” he said. In a further complication, Brexit has split the main political parties, Conservatives and Labour, right down the middle. “That’s what I would suggest, because with a team we can move anything, we can move any mountain.”But Fielding said he doubted Britain’s rigid political system was up to the task of compromise.

Source: thestar January 19, 2019 14:35 UTC