LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmaker Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party and a staunch Brexit supporter, attacked her new plan to delay Brexit and open talks with the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.

“This is an utter disaster,” he told Sky News’ deputy political editor Beth Rigby on Tuesday.

“We are just about to legitimize Corbyn. It is appalling.”</s>British lawmakers have once again failed to find a majority for any proposal in votes on alternatives to the government's rejected Brexit deal, rejecting four options in votes in the House of Commons.

The votes on Monday were an attempt to forge an alternative to the government's European Union divorce deal, which MPs have rejected three times.

The options included remaining in a customs union with the EU — which failed by just three votes — and holding a new referendum on Britain's membership in the bloc.

Three days after the date on which Britain was originally due to leave the EU, it was still uncertain how, when or even if the United Kingdom would ever say goodbye to the bloc it first joined 46 years ago. The government says it is still trying to build support for Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal. The cabinet is set to meet Tuesday to discuss options.

Anti-Brexit demonstrators with an effigy of British Prime Minister Theresa May near College Green in London. (Jonathan Brady/PA/Associated Press)

Underlining how uncertainty is hurting business, the U.K. head of German industrial giant Siemens, Juergen Maier, said Britain was wrecking its reputation for stability.

Britain's electorate voted by 52 per cent in favour of leaving the European Union back in 2016. A divisive start to a process that's only unravelled further since then. Margaret Evans takes us through its roller-coaster of a timeline, and the major toll it's taken on the nation's psyche. 2:46

May's government and her party, which has grappled with the schism over Europe for 30 years, was in open conflict between those pushing for a customs union with the EU and eurosceptics who are demanding a cleaner break from the bloc.

'Worst example of ill-discipline'

May's enforcer in Parliament — known as the chief whip — said the government should have been clearer that May's loss of her majority in Parliament in a snap 2017 election would "inevitably" lead it to accept a softer Brexit.

"The government as a whole probably should have just been clearer on the consequences of that," Julian Smith told the BBC in an interview published on Monday.

"The Parliamentary arithmetic would mean that this would be inevitably a kind of softer type of Brexit," said Smith, who also said ministers had tried to undermine the prime minister.

Their behaviour, he said, was the "worst example of ill-discipline in cabinet in British political history."

Asked about his comments, May's spokesperson said: "The PM made it clear that there was a need to bring the country back together after the Brexit vote and that is what they [the government] are working to achieve."

Government should have been clearer that after the 2017 election, the UK was “inevitably” heading for a softer type of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brexit?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Brexit</a> - chief whip Julian Smith tells <a href="https://twitter.com/bbclaurak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bbclaurak</a><br><br>[tap to expand] <a href="https://t.co/XiilgZBt9t">https://t.co/XiilgZBt9t</a> <a href="https://t.co/CE2tr3UmFD">pic.twitter.com/CE2tr3UmFD</a> —@BBCPolitics

On the lack of discipline in government, he said Brexit brought "out strong emotions" on all sides of the debate.

Asked about the possibility of a snap election to break the deadlock in Parliament, May's spokesperson said the prime minister has said an election would not be in the national interest.

Chief Whip Julian Smith arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on March 26. A BBC documentary airing Monday portrays Smith as being highly critical of Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinent members. (Andy Rain/EPA-EFE)

In a 2016 referendum, 17.4 million voters, or 51.9 per cent, backed leaving the EU while 16.1 million, or 48.1 per cent, backed staying. But ever since, opponents of Brexit have sought to soften, or even stop, the divorce.

The Times newspaper said May had been warned by some senior ministers that she faced resignations if she agreed to pursue a softer Brexit.

Britain had been due to leave the EU on March 29 but the political deadlock in London forced May to ask the bloc for a delay. Currently, Brexit is to take place on April 12 unless May comes up with another option.

The Brexit crisis has left the United Kingdom divided: supporters of both Brexit and EU membership marched through London last week. Many on both sides feel betrayed by a political elite that has failed to show leadership.

Business is also increasingly frustrated. "Enough is enough. We are all running out of patience. Make a decision and unite around a customs union compromise that delivers economic security and stability," Siemens' Maier said.

"Where the UK used to be beacon for stability, we are now becoming a laughing stock," he said in open letter to lawmakers published by website Politico.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is a politician with a current job-approval rating of less than 30 per cent. She's survived -- in the words of one political author -- the most tumultuous premierships in 400 years of British history. How has she done it? 1:30

From EU officials watching from Brussels, there was one plea — make up your minds.

"A sphinx is an open book compared to the U.K.," said Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president. "Nobody knows where it is heading. Would like to make the sphinx talk and tell us in which direction they would like to go."</s>LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would ask the European Union for a further delay to Brexit beyond April 12 to give her time to sit down with the opposition Labour Party in a bid to break the impasse over Britain’s departure.

Nearly three years since the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU in a shock referendum result, British politics is in crisis and it is unclear how, when or if it will ever quit the European club it first joined in 1973.

In a hastily arranged statement from her Downing Street office after spending more then seven hours chairing crisis cabinet meetings on how to plot a way out of the Brexit maze, May said she was seeking another short extension to Brexit.

“We will need a further extension of Article 50, one that is as short as possible and which ends when we pass a deal,” May said. “We need to be clear what such an extension is for - to ensure we leave in a timely and orderly way.”

“I am offering to sit down with the leader of the opposition and to try to agree a plan - that we would both stick to - to ensure that we leave the European Union and that we do so with a deal,” May said.

The pound rallied against the dollar as much as 0.3 percent to above $1.31. It also strengthened against the euro to 85.43 pence.

The move by May offers the prospect of keeping the United Kingdom much more closely tied to the EU after Brexit, as the Labour Party has called for a continued customs union with the EU and a close relationship with the EU’s single market.

Any plan, May said, would have to include the current Withdrawal Agreement that she agreed with the EU in November and which the bloc says it will not reopen, rejecting the demands of eurosceptic hardliners in her Conservative Party who seek a clean break from the EU.

May said that if she could not agree a unified approach with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran socialist who voted against joining the bloc in 1975, then the government would agree a number of options on the future relationship.

Then, she said, the government would put them before the House of Commons in a series of votes.

“If we cannot agree on a single unified approach, then we would instead agree a number of options for the future relationship that we could put to the House in a series of votes to determine which course to pursue,” May said.

“Crucially, the government stands ready to abide by the decision of the house.”

It was unclear what the impact of May’s move would be on her own febrile party, which has been grappling with an internal schism over Europe for the past three decades.

Over half of her lawmakers voted last week to go for a no-deal Brexit, to the dismay of British business.

“It seems to me that she wants to rely upon Labour votes to get this extension through,” David Jones, a Brexit-supporting former Conservative minister, told Reuters. “If she does that, then she is putting the future of the party in peril.”

May said she wanted the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to be passed before May 22 so that the United Kingdom did not have to take part in elections that month to the European Parliament.

May’s own divorce deal with the EU has been defeated three times by the lower house of the British parliament, which failed on Monday to find a majority of its own for any alternatives.

The impasse has already delayed Brexit for at least two weeks beyond the planned departure date of March 29 to 2200 GMT on April 12.

“This is a decisive moment in the story of these islands,” May said. “But we can and must find the compromises that will deliver what the British people voted for.”</s>LONDON (Reuters) - Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party will not support any of the four alternative Brexit options being voted upon in parliament on Monday, DUP lawmaker Sammy Wilson told parliament.

“We will not be supporting any of these arrangements, 1) because they do not safeguard the issue of the union and 2) because they do not deliver on Brexit,” Wilson said.

The series of indicative votes has been designed to try to find an alternative Brexit plan to help break the deadlock in parliament.</s>MPs again rejected all options set out in Parliament last night in a series of "indicative votes" aimed at finding a way forward for Brexit.

It was the second time in the space of a week that all alternatives to Theresa May's deal were rejected by Parliament after the Commons took control of the Brexit process following the Prime Minister's three defeats on her plan.

Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay told MPs that the default outcome was now a no-deal Brexit on April 12, but said it was still possible to leave with a deal - and avoid holding European Parliament elections in May - if the Commons approves an agreement this week.

Cabinet will meet today for five hours to try and thrash out a way forward.

Here's how our MPs voted for each of the alternative plans set out last night:

The UK would join the European Free Trade Association and European Economic Area with countries such as Norway, allowing us to remain part of the single market, retaining freedom of movement, so British citizens would keep the right to live and work in the EU and vice-versa.

Former Conservative MP Nick Boles's Common Market 2.0 motion was defeated by 282 votes to 261, majority 21.

Would see the Government to negotiating "a permanent and comprehensive UK-wide customs union with the EU" as part of any Brexit deal.

Would give the UK a closer trading relationship with the EU and reduce the need for some (but not all) checks at the Irish border.

Tory former chancellor Ken Clarke's customs union motion was defeated by 276 votes to 273, majority three.

Gives the public a vote to approve any Brexit deal passed by Parliament, before it can be implemented.

MPs voted by 292 votes to 280, majority 12, to reject Labour MP Peter Kyle's second Brexit referendum motion.

Giving MPs power to block leaving with no-deal by cancelling Brexit if EU won’t grant a further extension beyond 12 April

SNP MP Joanna Cherry's proposal saw 191 votes for, 292 against, defeated by a majority 101</s>MPs have once again rejected a series of alternative Brexit plans as four options failed to get a majority in the Commons.

A proposal from Tory grandee Ken Clarke for a customs union arrangement with the EU was rejected by only three votes, while a demand for a second referendum was defeated by 12 and a Norway-style deal beaten by 21.

A fourth option, which called for Article 50 to be revoked if a deal could not be agreed and MPs rejected leaving without a deal, went down by 191 votes to 292.

To find out how your MP voted, put their name into the search field below. If you don't know your MP's name, you can also search by constituency.

Mr Clarke's motion demanding the UK form a customs union with the EU came closest to passing, garnering 273 votes, with 276 MPs casting ballots the other way.

Nick Boles' motion calling for a Common Market 2.0 - a plan for close engagement with the EU after Brexit along the lines of Norway's relationship with the bloc - got 261 votes in favour, with 282 ballots against.

Mr Boles declared that he would no longer sit as a Conservative MP after the defeat.

A motion calling for a second referendum on any Brexit deal passed by parliament gained the highest number of votes in favour - 280 - but 292 MPs voted against it.

The motion with the heaviest defeat margin called for Article 50 to be revoked in the event that a deal could not be agreed and MPs rejected leaving without a deal, which went down by 191 votes to 292.

Click on the links below to find out how your MP voted on previous Brexit debates.</s>British Prime Minister Theresa May has addressed the United Kingdom — again — after hosting an epic seven hours of government meetings Tuesday and told the nation she intends to delay Brexit again to get her deal agreed by Parliament, or else open the door for a softer Brexit.

The podium moment at 10 Downing Street — merely the latest in a line of addresses direct to the nation by the Prime Minister — came the evening after the second failed attempt by Parliament to seize control of the Brexit process from the government. Rather than indicating what direction they intended to take, Parliament instead voted against every option but before them for a second time.

The Prime Minister chaired two cabinet meetings for over seven hours today in search of a way through the so-called “logjam”, and it was speculated by members of the Westminster bubble that the outcome could lead to a deviation from the plan. This could have meant a softening of Brexit to appease the overwhelmingly pro-Remain Parliament, or accepting a no-deal Brexit next week just to get it over and done with.

As it was, the result seems to have been exactly what the Prime Minister has been doing since day one — more of the same. Inviting the leader of the opposition to talks which she made clear would have to end up with him coming to accept her Brexit ‘deal’, May said she was going to be delaying Brexit yet again to give herself more time to get the deal agreed.

Crucially, the Prime Minister said if there was no agreement she would allow Parliament to vote on what option they want, which the government would then “stand by”. Given the overwhelmingly pro-Remain character of the House of Commons — much in contrast to the wider country which voted for Britain to leave the European Union in 2016 — this would almost certainly mean a much softer Brexit than even the ‘deal’ the Prime Minister was given by the EU.

Listening live to Prime Minister May’s speech, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told LBC listeners, “That was the prime minister basically saying that we need national unity to deliver the national interest.

“We need leadership and my view is what we got from that statement was yet more fudge.”

“That statement from the prime minister takes us no farther further whatsoever and maybe takes us even deeper into crisis because it’s all dependant upon her withdrawal treaty and amended political declaration passing and it may have taken us no further forward at all,” he said.

UPDATE 1910 — Will it be enough?

May handing over power to Corbyn and the Commons is not enough to please arch Europhiles like Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable who used the crisis to call for another referendum. He said:

The British people voted to leave the European Union in June 2016, and as pointed out by Brexiteers, the country could have left then, or very shortly afterwards. However, the Brexit can — so loathed by the British political establishment as it was — has been kicked down the road endlessly since. How has this happened?
• Then British Prime Minister David Cameron who gave the country the EU membership referendum in an attempt to shut down the debate over Europe for another generation was so horrified at having accidentally lost, despite spending millions of pounds on sending a government booklet to every home in the country on why voters should do as they were told, immediately resigns office. This effectively leaves the country without a leader, and hence unable to leave the European Union.
• Theresa May becomes Prime Minister in July 2016 but waits until March 2017 to actually trigger the Brexit process known as Article 50.
• This creates a two year negotiation period until the technical Brexit day on March 29th 2019, followed by a long period of indeterminate length where actual Brexit — the so-called ‘future relationship’ — is negotiated. Even if this period had gone to plan, the United Kingdom wouldn’t have been free from the European Union until the early 2020s, in all probability.
• The March 29th date, even after two years of negotiations, was still too soon for Theresa May, however, so it was delayed until April 12th 2019. This was to give the government just a little more time to do what it had failed to do in the preceding two years.
• Now the Prime Minister wants to delay again, claiming she’d go for a delay “that is as short as possible”. It is not clear whether this will be possible, however, as the European Union itself has to permit any delay and has already said that any more time now would have to be in the years, not months.
• What does all this mean? Key Brexiteer Nigel Farage already warned that one delay to the legal Brexit date would lead to it being delayed again and again — he has now been proven right by the Prime Minister. He has also said that any attempt to delay Brexit is merely cancelling Brexit in disguise. Will he be proven correct there, as well?

The politicos are, of course, ready with instant reaction. One of the first out of the blocks was Nick Boles, the former Conservative who walked away from the party yesterday evening because Theresa May wasn’t killing Brexit fast enough. The fact he’s welcoming May’s comments tonight probably tells Brexiteers all they need to know about the dangerous new direction May is taking the country — away from the democratically expressed will of the British people:

Brexiteer Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns has called the announcement a “Further national frustration while the PM kicks the Brexit can down the road,” criticising the prime minister for working “closely with the opposition” which wants a softer Brexit and a second referendum.

Brexit campaign group Leave Means Leave warns that May’s plans will lead to a “Brexit betrayal,” writing, “The government and both parties promised to leave the EU, the Single Market, and the Customs Union. All of the options being presented, including the PM’s Withdrawal Agreement, lead to this commitment being overturned and a Brexit betrayal.”

I have just come from chairing seven hours of cabinet meetings focussed on finding a route out of the current impasse. One that will deliver the Brexit the British people voted for, and allow us to move on and begin bringing our divided country back together. I know there are some who are so fed up with delay and endless arguments that they would like to leave with no deal next week. I’ve always been clear that we could make a success of no deal in the long term, but leaving with a deal is the best solution. So we will need a further extension of article 50, one that is as short as possible, and one that will end when we pass a deal. And we need to be clear about what such an extension is for, to ensure we leave in a timely and orderly way. This debate, this division cannot drag on much longer. It is putting members of parliament and everyone else under enormous pressure, and it is doing damage to our politics. Despite the best efforts of MPs, the process that the House of Commons has tried to lead has not come up with an answer. So today I am taking action to break the logjam. I am offering to sit down with the leader of the opposition and to try to agree a plan that we would both stick to, to ensure we leave the European Union and we do so with a deal. Any plan would have to agree the current withdrawal agreement. It has already been negotiated with the 27 other members, and the EU has repeatedly said that it cannot and will not be reopened. What we need to focus on is out future relationship with the EU. The ideal outcome of this process would be to agree an approach on a future relationship which delivers on the result of the referendum, that both the leader of the opposition and I could put to the House for approval, and that I could then take to next week’s European Council. However, if we cannot agree on a single unified approach, then we would instead agree to a number of options for the future relationship which we could pout to the house in a series of votes to determine which course to pursue. Crucially, the government stands ready to stand by the decision of the house. But to make this process work, the opposition would need to agree to this too. The government would then bring forth the withdrawal agreement bill. We would want to agree a timetable for this bill to ensure it is passed before the 27th of May, so that the United Kingdom need not take part in European Parliamentary elections. This is a difficult time for everyone, passions are running high on all sides of the argument. But we can and must find the compromises that will deliver what the British people voted for. This is a decisive moment in the story of these Islands. And it requires national unity to deliver the national interest.</s>MPs have again rejected a series of alternatives to Theresa May’s Brexit deal.

A call for a customs union after Brexit was defeated by just three votes, a referendum on any deal was rejected by 12 votes, the Common Market 2.0 plan lost by 21 votes and cancelling Brexit to prevent a no-deal scenario was defeated by 101.

So what happens next?

– Tuesday April 2



 Theresa May has scheduled a five-hour Cabinet meeting instead of the usual 90 minutes. The first three hours will be a political Cabinet in the absence of civil servants – fuelling speculation the senior Tories will consider the prospect of a snap election, the timing of the Prime Minister’s departure or the potential for ministerial resignations if there is a change in Brexit strategy.

Backbench MPs will again take charge of the Commons timetable to consider Brexit plans under Tory MP Sir Oliver Letwin’s scheme to break the Parliamentary deadlock.

After the latest round of indicative votes failed to produce a clear winner, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said: “If the House were to agree a deal this week it may still be possible to avoid holding European parliamentary elections.”

That could be an indication the Prime Minister might risk a fourth showdown on her Withdrawal Agreement in the hope that more Tory Eurosceptics will accept the choice is between her plan and a softer Brexit.

– Wednesday April 10



 An emergency summit of European Union leaders will consider any request by the UK for a longer delay to Brexit. To be granted a further postponement the Government will have to set out what purpose it would achieve and it will almost certainly involve taking part in the European elections.

The UK is scheduled to leave the EU on April 12 after MPs rejected the Prime Minister’s deal last week.

If Europe’s leaders have agreed an extension to the Article 50 process, the UK will elect MEPs to the European Parliament.

The breakaway Independent Group of MPs has announced it intends to set up a fully fledged political party – Change UK – to fight the elections on a pro-EU platform.

Nigel Farage will seek to continue as an MEP, this time for the newly formed Brexit Party.

Mrs May warned MPs before they rejected her deal that a long extension would “at least delay and could destroy Brexit”.

Three years after the referendum, it is possible the UK will still be in the European Union, have newly elected MEPs and will be contributing to the Brussels budget.

The current make-up of the House of Commons has so far proved unable to agree on any Brexit plan so the Prime Minister could be tempted to call a snap election to break the deadlock.

But having promised not to lead the Tories into the scheduled 2022 election and then said she would quit before the next phase of the Brexit process, would her MPs allow her to fight another contest as leader?

And would a new election produce a decisive result to give whoever occupies Number 10 a majority to steer such a divisive issue through Parliament?

The call for another referendum was defeated by just 12 votes and campaigners seized on the fact it had more MPs voting in favour than any other option.

The narrow defeat for a customs union will increase pressure on Mrs May to move in favour of the measure.

But that would tear the Tory party apart and would be likely to result in Cabinet resignations as critics of the customs union believe it robs the UK of one of the major Brexit prizes – the ability to strike trade deals with countries such as the US.</s>Paul O'Connor, Head of the UK-based Multi-Asset Team, discusses the ongoing impasse within Parliament as MPs unsuccessfully attempt to narrow down approaches to Brexit.
• None The Brexit process remains gridlocked after none of the eight withdrawal deals presented to Parliament could muster a majority vote on March 27.
• None We believe Prime Minister Theresa May could try a third time to get support for her Brexit plan, but the prospects are not encouraging.
• None With the clock ticking toward the April 12 deadline for a "no deal" Brexit, a general election seems to be a growing possibility.

Sixteen different potential approaches to Brexit were presented to British members of Parliament (MPs) this week, eight were voted on March 27 - none received majority support. The Brexit process remains gridlocked.

Advocates of softer forms of Brexit might take encouragement from the fact that the two most popular solutions were ones involving the UK remaining in a permanent customs union with the European Union (EU) and another proposing a second referendum on the withdrawal deal. Still, these options did have more votes against them than in favor, and it remains the case that a wide range of outcomes are still plausible, including the hardest "no deal" Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed plan, softer versions of Brexit or even Brexit being revoked.

In terms of parliamentary procedure, the plan from here is for a shorter list of Wed.'s options to be presented to MPs again on Monday, probably with a new voting mechanism, in a renewed effort to establish majority support for one option.

Before then, there is a good chance that Ms. May will try one more time to get support for her Brexit plan, which has already been rejected twice by Parliament. The prospects here are not encouraging given that Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), led by Arlene Foster and, in Westminster, by deputy leader Nigel Dodds, remains opposed to the deal in its current form and the prime minister has limited scope to amend it. Parliamentary arithmetic suggests that Ms. May's deal has little chance of being passed without the support of the DUP. Even the prime minister's promise made Wed. to quit if her Brexit plan was voted through was not enough to shift the DUP position.

The clock is ticking and the pressure is building. If Parliament cannot establish support for either Ms. May's plan or one of the other Brexit options in the days ahead, then the UK will need to request an extended delay to the Brexit process to avoid the alternative "no deal" Brexit on April 12. Before granting a longer extension, the EU is likely to demand that the UK identify some way of breaking the deadlock. A general election is a growing possibility here, although it is far from obvious why this would be an effective solution given how polarized and entrenched political opinion on Brexit is in the UK. As the eight votes showed last night, it is not hard to get agreement on rejecting options for Brexit but establishing consensus for a way forward remains elusive.

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Editor's Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha editors.</s>United Kingdom lawmakers on Monday once again failed to find a majority on any alternative Brexit plan before them, 10 days before Britain’s departure from the European Union, BBC reported. The legislators have already rejected the Brexit divorce deal three times.

The European Union has set an April 12 deadline for the United Kingdom to either agree to the divorce terms that Prime Minister Theresa May has struck with the bloc, figure out an alternative or leave the bloc without a deal.

March 29 was the original date for Brexit, but the Parliament has repeatedly failed to decide on the terms of the exit. Last week, May had offered to resign if the deal passed in a bid to win over rebels in her Conservative Party.

The MPs voted on four different options for leaving the European Union, but none gained a majority. The only motion that came close to getting a majority was a proposal to keep Britain in a customs union with the European Union, Reuters reported. The motion was defeated by three votes.

A proposal to hold a second referendum went down by 292 to 280 votes. However, May is opposed to holding another referendum and has said it would betray the voters who were promised that the result of 2016 referendum would be implemented.

Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay said the default legal position is that the UK will leave the European Union without a deal on April 12 – an option that could result in huge economic disruption. Britain may bring back its deal for a fourth vote this week, Barclay said, AFP reported. “Cabinet will meet in the morning [Tuesday morning] to consider the results of tonight’s vote and how we should proceed,” Barclay said.

Meanwhile, Nick Boles resigned from the Conservative Party after his motion to stay in the Single Market was rejected. This option would accept May’s deal with the bloc for Brexit, but also require her to negotiate a new customs arrangement and membership of the European Union Single Market. The Single Market or Common Market seekes to guarantee the free movement of goods, services, capital and labour within the bloc.

Boles later said on Twitter that he would remain an MP and sit in the House of Commons as “an Independent Progressive Conservative”.
The British parliament votes against four alternative Brexit plans.