国际英语资讯:News Analysis: British PM enlists business leaders to back her Brexit deal_时事

国际英语资讯:News Analysis: British PM enlists business leaders to back her Brexit deal

During what she said an intense week of negotiations ahead, May said: "I expect us to hammer out the full and final details of the framework that will underpin our future relationship and I am confident that we can strike a deal at the European Council that I can take back to the House of Commons."

The prime minister is expected to travel to Brussels this week to hammer out the final details of the political declaration on Britain's future relationship with the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Junker.

By withdrawing their support for the draft deal, two of the British cabinet ministers resigned last week over the proposed deal while some others are believed to be trying to change its wording.

Meanwhile, speculation continues over whether the number of Tory members of the parliament submitting letters of no-confidence in May will reach 48 -- required to trigger a confidence vote on her leadership of the Conservative Party.

It is May's hope that the whole package, which also includes the withdrawal agreement containing the backstop, can be approved at a special EU summit on Nov. 25. The draft 585-page withdrawal agreement are set to be finalised and signed off at an EU summit this weekend.

However, May also tried very hard to make it crystal clear that Brexit means just a divorce from the EU as an organization, but not the continent as a market.

"While the world is changing fast, our geography is not," she said. "Europe will always be our most proximate goods market and ensuring we have free-flow borders is crucial."