NPR

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European Union leaders gave the country two different deadlines, depending on whether U.K. lawmakers can agree on a path forward. One deadline is in two months; the other in two weeks.

The Atlantic

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After she canceled a key Brexit vote, few possibilities remain: no confidence, no deal, or no Brexit at all.

NPR

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"If we held the vote tomorrow, the deal would be rejected by a significant margin," the U.K. prime minister admitted, hours after a European Union court ruled the U.K. can still back out of Brexit.

Guardian Weekly

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Ask a stupid question and you get a stupid answer. The Northern Ireland protocol is a stupid answer: it imposes a complex bureaucracy on the movement of ordinary goods across the Irish Sea. But it is the only response to a problem created by Boris Jo

Weekend Argus Saturday

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European Union officials say it’s make-your-mind-up time for Boris Johnson. Does he want a trade deal with the bloc, or not? ■

Pretoria News Weekend

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European Union officials say it’s make-your-mind-up time for Boris Johnson. Does he want a trade deal with the bloc, or not? ■

Manhattan Institute

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The British prime minister and her colleagues never wanted Britain to leave the EU, anyway.

NPR

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"This is an historic moment, from which there can be no turning back. Britain is leaving the European Union," British Prime Minister Theresa May tells the House of Commons.

The Guardian

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The road to Brexit has been long, has already seen one prime minister fall by the wayside – and may yet account for the career of another. Theresa May, however, believes she has found a formula she can use to get an exit deal past her cabinet, her pa

NPR

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"I simply want a large number to slap in the government's face," said Margaret Anne Georgiadou, the petition's organizer. And then came the deluge.

The Independent

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Brexit has created daily headlines, angry pubs rants and bend-your-ear analysis by taxi drivers for more than four years now. Yet the UK’s exit from the EU and its structures is still not complete.   Brexit is a process, rather than one event. With a

The Critic Magazine

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I DO NOT KNOW if it is really true that coalminers once took caged canaries underground as detectors of noxious gases. Still, it is a useful and well-understood metaphor for an early warning of danger ahead. In Brexit Unfolded the first canary keels

The Atlantic

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The date Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union technically doesn’t matter—but postponing it does.

Saturday Star

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European Union officials say it’s make-your-mind-up time for Boris Johnson. Does he want a trade deal with the bloc, or not? ■

All About Space

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Brexit is the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. There are three main possible outcomes. Former Prime Minister Theresa May negotiated a Withdrawal Agreement which set out how the UK would leave the European Union. It was knocked bac

The Atlantic

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One factor keeping the British prime minister in power is, paradoxically, her own unpopularity.

Guardian Weekly

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Rarely do we see the thinking of the other side of a negotiation so quickly. Michel Barnier’s new book helps explain why Britain ended up being comprehensively out-negotiated over Brexit and saddled with a flawed withdrawal agreement and a deeply dis

NPR

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British newspapers reported on Sunday that senior members of May's cabinet could resign to force her to leave. May has until the end of next week to get a Brexit deal through Parliament.

Chicago Tribune

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"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." When it comes to Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May seems to have taken this schoolteacher's maxim to an extreme. Having seen her deal for withdrawing from the European Union voted down by a 2-1 margin

NPR

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According to several U.K. media outlets, May is expected to say Friday that she will step down June 10, when a new contest to replace her will begin in her Conservative Party.

The Guardian

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In the short term, the party is prepared to continue talks with Theresa May to try to see whether a compromise can be found on the future relationship that both sides can support. Two key problems threaten the prospect of success: the prime minister’

The Atlantic

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On Wednesday, the British government began the formal process of exiting the European Union. In a speech to the House of Commons in London, Prime Minister Theresa May said that invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty was a “historic moment, from whi

New Zealand Listener

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And so it came to pass, the moment that, like Zeno’s arrow, seemed destined never quite to arrive. After three-and-a-half years of deliberation, confusion, anger and near farcical drama, the UK finally left the EU, thereby fulfilling what the novelis

Guardian Weekly

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What must it be like to be in the inner circles of this government, watching the economy bounce from crisis to crisis? Shortages mount, while livestock that suddenly cannot be put into the food chain is slaughtered and sent to rendering plants. Ships

NPR

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Tuesday's vote is a second chance for Prime Minister Theresa May to gain the support of Parliament on the terms of Brexit, set for March 29. But it's not clear now how or even whether that will occur.

The Atlantic

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The British prime minister narrowly survived a no-confidence vote, but no one knows what comes next for the U.K.

The Christian Science Monitor

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With MPs pulling in different directions, the only guarantee is that Britain’s relationships with the rest of the EU will be different regardless of Parliament’s vote Dec. 11.

Los Angeles Times

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LONDON - Boris Johnson, a British politician best known for his eccentric and unpredictable ways, overwhelmingly won a party leadership contest on Tuesday that also anoints him as the country's next prime minister. Johnson, who is expected to assume

The Atlantic

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The British prime minister may not be her Conservative Party’s favorite leader, but she’s all they’ve got—for now.

The Atlantic

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The U.K. disputes news reports that say a meeting between Theresa May and the European Commission president was tense.