“The government is past the point where it can have everything ready if no-deal happens,” one analyst warned.
PM Theresa May confronts European leaders after failing to win Brexit deal
By sending notification that it was leaving the E.U., the U.K. started a stopwatch of sorts giving it two years to come to an agreement.
On Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that a vote by lawmakers on the withdrawal agreement she negotiated with the E.U. would take place in mid-January. An earlier vote was postponed at the 11th hour because May’s plan didn’t have enough support. May subsequently survived an attempt by her own party’s lawmakers to oust her.
With politicians still squabbling about both what the future relationship with the E.U. should look like and how the U.K. should leave the 28-member bloc, a “no-deal” Brexit is a very real possibility.