May Faces Cabinet Pressure Over Brexit Customs Union
- Official says May is braced to lose Commons vote on EU trade
- Brexit-backers Johnson and Fox want U.K. to quit customs bloc
U.K. Lawmakers Battle Over Brexit Customs Union
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Theresa May is battling to avert a cabinet revolt amid fears from euroskeptic Tories that she’ll break her promise to take the U.K. out of the European Union’s trade regime.
May’s inner circle thinks she could be forced to accept staying in the EU’s customs union because Parliament will reject her plan to withdraw from it when the issue comes to a vote in the House of Commons, according to one official. Such a move could trigger a challenge to May’s leadership from Brexit campaigners in the Conservative Party.