{"id":25632,"date":"2018-12-15T04:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T04:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25632"},"modified":"2018-12-15T04:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T04:22:43","slug":"no-deal-brexit-looks-likelier-than-ever-after-mays-summit-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25632","title":{"rendered":"No-deal Brexit looks likelier than ever after May&#8217;s summit humiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Brussels, Belgium (CNN)<\/cite>British Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/13\/uk\/theresa-may-brussels-brexit-gbr-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">save her faltering Brexit deal<\/a> floundered Friday, as EU leaders sent her away empty-handed and a leading official described the state of the debate in the United Kingdom as &#8220;sometimes nebulous and imprecise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">After being forced to pull a vote on her deal in the House of Commons, May pleaded with EU leaders to add legal assurances that would assuage lawmakers furious over a crucial element, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/13\/uk\/irish-border-backstop-gbr-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">so-called Irish backstop.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But after an apparently lackluster presentation by May, EU leaders rejected the demands &#8212; all but killing any hope of a parliamentary breakthrough in London &#8212; and instead stepped up plans for a no-deal Brexit.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, Belgium (CNN)British Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s efforts to save her faltering Brexit deal floundered Friday, as EU leaders sent her away empty-handed and a leading official described the state of the debate in the United Kingdom as &#8220;sometimes nebulous and imprecise.&#8221;After being forced to pull a vote on her deal in the House of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}