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Theresa May could lose Tuesday's Brexit vote by huge margin, says Report

Sunday Times says Brexiteers are pushing for May to quit

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May addresses the media outside 10 Downing Street after it was announced that the Conservative Party will hold a vote of no confidence in her leadership, in London | Photo: Reuters

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Theresa May’s aides are increasingly concerned that Tuesday’s vote on her Brexit deal could result in an even worse humiliation than she endured in a similar vote in January, the Sunday Times reported. The majority against the government then was 230, the biggest defeat for a prime minister in more than a century.

“It’s bloody bad,” the Times cited one of her aides as saying. “We are at Defcon 2.”


In theory, should Parliament reject her deal, it would then be offered a

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