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The British Parliament voted against the four alternative options to the government withdrawal agreement negotiated with Brussels, which they have rejected three times already. After having already voted against 8 alternatives last week, parliamentarians rejected new motions that proposed, among other things, maintaining close ties with the EU or stopping Brexit to avoid an exit without agreement on 12 April.
With our correspondent in London , Muriel Delcroix
Despite this new sword in the water, a trend is clear: this time in addition to the option of a confirmation referendum, the two alternatives that have received the most votes are those of a Brexit matched of a customs union and that of a Common Market revisited.
The latter option was defended by Conservative MP Nick Boles who in a theatrical gesture announced in the House that he was leaving his party out of spite to see the Conservatives refuse to compromise on a sweeter Brexit maintaining close ties with the party. EU. An anger shared by other opposition politicians in the face of Parliament's inability to break the stalemate by lack of flexibility.
This result temporarily reinforces the position of Theresa May who can again recall that an agreement already exists, its text negotiated since November with the EU and could represent a fourth time to the vote of the parliamentarians.
For their part, the deputies plan a third round on Wednesday. But before that, a real council of war was planned on Tuesday between Theresa May and her ministers who will lock themselves up on Downing Street for 5 hours to hold two cabinet meetings and try to agree on a response to this new development.