国际英语资讯:Third vote on Mays Brexit deal still uncertain as departure date looms_时事

国际英语资讯:Third vote on Mays Brexit deal still uncertain as departure date looms

"The idea of the British people going to the polls to elect MEPs three years after voting to leave the EU hardly bears thinking about. There could be no more potent symbol of Parliament's collective political failure," said May.

In a message to MPs May said: "For those who backed remain, I am asking them to remove any chance of the UK staying in the EU. For those who backed leave, I am asking them to vote for a form of Brexit that may not be everything they hoped for."

The prime minister warned: "If we fail, the way ahead is one of uncertainty and ongoing, perhaps permanent, division."

Although Tuesday has been earmarked as the day when the third vote on the deal will take place, it has yet to be confirmed.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said on a Sunday morning political program on the BBC that it has not yet definitely been decided.

"We will only bring the deal back if we are confident that enough of our colleagues and the DUP are prepared to support it so we can get it through Parliament," he said.

Hammond added: "Clearly if we don't get this deal through, we are almost certainly going to have to fight a European parliamentary election and we are almost certainly going to have to have a longer extension."

Keir Starmer, Shadow Brexit Secretary for the main opposition Labour Party, said Sunday the party leadership plans to back an amendment when May's deal comes before parliament for its third vote. The amendment would call for a second referendum on EU membership, even though a referendum call was overwhelmingly rejected last week by the House of Commons.