U.K. Tories Propose Norway-Style Bridge to Canada-Style Brexit
- Senior Conservative lawmaker calls May’s plan ‘humiliation’
- Boles seeks to end U.K.-EU talks, join European Economic Area
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Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy has come under fresh fire, this time from a senior lawmaker in her own party who opposes a hard departure from the European Union.
Most of the criticism of May’s cabinet-backed “Chequers Plan” has come from Conservatives linked to the European Research Group, which seeks maximum distance from the EU and is pushing for an exit without a deal. They have rallied behind Boris Johnson, who withdrew his backing for May’s plan and quit as Foreign Secretary. As the clock ticks on Brexit talks, options for a Brexit deal May can get through Parliament appear to be vanishing.