Theresa May Hangs On, but Great Britain's Brexit Crisis Continues
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 13 December 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday, the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom voted not to oust Prime Minister Theresa May. With the March Brexit deadline approaching, May must convince not only her political opponents but also the fringe members of her own party that her Brexit deal is the best one for the U.K. Sam Knight joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what the Brexit emergency reveals about the political chaos inside the U.K. and across Europe.
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| 0:55.1 | It's Thursday, December 13th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:01.2 | Yesterday, conservative lawmakers in Great Britain voted to keep the embattled Prime Minister, |
| 1:06.8 | Theresa May, in power. The vote came after two years of raucous infighting within her party |
| 1:12.5 | and growing discontent among voters about Britain's exit from the European Union. The deadline |
| 1:19.5 | for withdrawal is only three months away and May lacks parliamentary support for her plan. |
| 1:25.4 | She's promised to step down before the next election in 2022. |
| 1:29.7 | After surviving the no-confidence vote, she addressed reporters outside her office in London. |
| 1:36.7 | A significant number of colleagues did cast a vote against me, and I have listened to what they said. |
| 1:49.0 | Following this ballot, we now need to get on with the job of delivering Brexit for the British people and building a better future for this country. |
| 1:53.0 | A Brexit that delivers on the vote that people gave, that brings back control of our money, |
| 1:59.0 | our borders and our laws, that protects jobs, security and the Union, |
| 2:03.4 | that brings the country back together rather than entrenching division. |
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