(21 May 2019) Prime Minister Theresa May warned that if British lawmakers voted against the latest version of her European Union withdrawal agreement they would be "voting to stop Brexit".
Earlier in her address, May made a major concession offering MPs the chance to vote on whether to hold a new referendum on the country's membership in the European Union - but only if it backs her thrice-rejected Brexit agreement.
She plans to ask the House of Commons to vote in early June on a withdrawal agreement bill, in what she called a "last chance" to seal a Brexit deal.
In a speech Tuesday, May reiterated that the consequences of not supporting her deal "could hardly be greater."
"Reject this deal and leaving the EU with a negotiated deal anytime soon will be dead in the water", she added.
Britain was due to leave the EU on March 29, but the bloc extended the deadline until Oct. 31 amid the political impasse.
Talks on securing a compromise between May's Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party broke down last week.
May says she will try again the week of June 3 by asking lawmakers to vote on a withdrawal agreement bill implementing the departure terms.
She has tried to secure backing from lawmakers with promises to maintain high standards on as workers' rights and environmental protections issues that are priorities for the left-of-centre Labour Party.
She also said lawmakers would get to decide how close a trade relationship to seek with the EU after Brexit, in a concession to Labour's demands for a customs union.
Confronted with a question of whether the Brexit impasse was to blame on her party's dislike of her, the Prime Minister retorted: "If it was just about me and how I'd voted we'd already of left the European Union."
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