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On the eve of the vote by British MPs on the EU's withdrawal agreement negotiated by the Prime Minister, Theresa May once again tried to convince recalcitrant parliamentarians. But two and a half months from the expected Brexit date, his chances of success are still slim.
With our correspondent in London, Muriel Delcroix
Faced with deputies still hostile to its withdrawal agreement, Theresa May is still fighting back by insisting that the assurances reiterated by Brussels on the Irish border had a real legal force.
Nevertheless, the Prime Minister knows that this will not be enough to convince parliamentarians and reminded them of their duties as elected representatives of the people:
" For the next 24 hours, give this agreement a second chance. No, he is not perfect. And yes it is a compromise. But when the history books evoke the decision of this chamber tomorrow, they will ask : have we respected the vote of the people in favor of an exit from the EU? Have we saved our economy, our security and our Union? Or did we betray the British people? "
But this pleading left the majority of the deputies behind. For them nothing has changed since December, the withdrawal text is the same. Labor opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has denounced the " total failure of the Prime Minister " and many elected officials now urge Theresa May to let the Parliament take the reins to break the stalemate.
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