The prime minister is fighting on multiple front amid signs that some of her cabinet could walk out this week over the Irish backstop.
London and Brussels both pledged that there will be no hard border on the island of Ireland, pending the agreement and ratification of a lasting "frictionless" UK-EU trade deal.
However, it is impossible to honor the bilateral guarantee as there is still a wide gap between the two sides on their post-Brexit relations.
At home, the government's latest Brexit compromise, known as the Chequers proposal, which was hammered out in early July, came under fierce attack by rebel Tory members of the cabinet and parliament.
Boris Johnson, former British foreign secretary, called upon the British public to "chunk Chequers." He, the current leading critical voice of the government Brexit policy, is said to campaign to replace May. David Davis, the former British Brexit secretary, was equally critical. He called for cabinet rebellion over the prime minister's Brexit plan.
At the same time, intensive talks are under way with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which is based in Northern Ireland and currently props up May's ruling Conservative Party in the British Parliament, over the ties between Northern Ireland and mainland Britain after Brexit.
At the heart of the dispute is May's plan to break a deadlock in talks with the EU by permitting exports travelling between these areas to be checked. The DUP flatly rejected this idea.
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