{"id":48297,"date":"2018-10-23T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48297"},"modified":"2018-10-23T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:45:32","slug":"brexit-talks-95-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/brexit-talks-95-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit talks 95% complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7563\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Teresa-May.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"449\" \/>British Prime Minister Theresa May urged her increasingly mutinous party on Monday to back her strategy over Brexit, insisting a deal with the European Union was close even as she once again rejected the bloc&#8217;s proposal for the Irish border.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an article in the mass-selling The Sun tabloid, she argued that her strategy for pulling Britain out of the European Union was &#8220;not about me&#8221; but based on the &#8220;national interest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But opposition from all sides has stepped up at home since a Brussels summit last week failed to make a breakthrough, raising fears Britain could be heading for a deeply damaging &#8220;no deal&#8221; exit next March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Brexit talks are not about me or my personal fortunes. They&#8217;re about the national interest &#8211; and that means making the right choices, not the easy ones,&#8221; May wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignleft quote-simple \"><p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script> <!-- Automatic size Responsive --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1234237307185872\" data-ad-slot=\"7381563475\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins> <script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was to update the House of Commons on the state of Brexit talks, where she was to tell MPs that &#8220;95 per cent&#8221; of the divorce deal is now agreed. But Brussels and London still disagree on how to keep open the land border between British Northern Ireland and EU-member Ireland &#8211; and May emphasised she will not compromise on this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been very clear that this must be achieved without creating any kind of border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK,&#8221; she wrote in The Sun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Doing so would undermine our precious Union and put at risk the hard-won peace&#8221; in the province, which was plagued by three decades of violence in which 3,500 people died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EU wants to keep Northern Ireland aligned with its customs rules until a wider trade deal can be agreed that removes the need for frontier checks. London rejects this, offering instead a UK-wide solution &#8211; but insists this can only be temporary, something the EU says it cannot agree to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eurosceptic Conservatives fear the dispute could force Britain into a never-ending customs union with the EU after Brexit, leaving it unable to conduct its own trade policy. A plan mooted in Brussels to extend the post-transition to resolve the matter added to their fears. May held two conference calls with her cabinet ministers over the weekend in a bid to allay their concerns. But as the Brexit deal nears, the pressure is growing on her critics to put up or shut up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May&#8217;s Northern Irish allies, the Democratic Unionist Party, have raised the stakes by threatening to vote against next week&#8217;s budget if the deal results in any special status for the province.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/brexit-talks-95-complete\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May urged her increasingly mutinous party on Monday to back her strategy over Brexit, insisting a deal with the European Union was close even as she once again rejected the bloc&#8217;s proposal for the Irish border. 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