{"id":8227,"date":"2019-03-13T09:48:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=8227"},"modified":"2019-03-13T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:48:23","slug":"brexit-mps-reject-theresa-mays-deal-by-149-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/03\/13\/brexit-mps-reject-theresa-mays-deal-by-149-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: MPs reject Theresa May&#8217;s deal by 149 votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs for a second time, throwing her Brexit strategy into further confusion.<\/p>\n<p>MPs voted down her deal by 391 to 242 &#8211; a smaller defeat than when they rejected it in January, BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>The PM said MPs will now get a vote on whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal and, if that fails, on whether Brexit should be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>She said Tory MPs will get a free vote on a no-deal Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>That means they can vote with their conscience rather than following the orders of party managers.<\/p>\n<p>May also told MPs the government would announce details of how the UK will manage its border with Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>If the Commons declines to approve a no-deal Brexit in a vote on Wednesday, a vote on extending Article 50, the legal mechanism taking the UK out of the EU on 29 March, will take place on Thursday, said May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs for a second time, throwing her Brexit strategy into further confusion. MPs voted down her deal by 391 to 242 &#8211; a smaller defeat than when they rejected it in January, BBC reported. The PM said MPs will now get a vote on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8229,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions\/8229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}