Will Brexit Now Be Hard, Soft or Scrambled?: QuickTake Q&A

May Faces Pressure to Abandon Plan for Hard Brexit

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A year since Britain voted to leave the European Union, the debate over how that will work is again in the air after the June 8 election stripped U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party of its overall control of Parliament. Suspicion that voters turned against her original plan -- plus doubt that enough lawmakers would now support it -- is forcing her into a rethink just as already complex negotiations with the EU are to begin.