May Under Pressure After Tory Hardliners Demand Clean Brexit

Calls for her to revise plan for two-year transition period
Hardline group offers May support, but hints at conditions

Markets aren’t pricing in a hard Brexit, BNP Paribas economist Paul Mortimer-Lee says.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Robert Hutton and Tim Ross

February 20, 2018 at 8:04 PM UTC

Updated on

February 21, 2018 at 7:56 AM UTC

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Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a potentially dangerous outcry from 62 members of her own party who are demanding a quick, clean break from the European Union, just as she tries to finalize her Brexit plans.