May warns of ‘catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust’ if UK remains in EU

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Theresa May has warned of a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust” in democracy if MPs reject her Brexit deal and the UK remains in the European Union&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With just two days to go before the Commons vote on her withdrawal agreement&comma; the British Prime Minister pleaded with parliamentarians to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;do what is right for our country” and back her controversial exit plan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs May said the UK risks crashing out of the EU without a deal or&comma; if MPs are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unwilling” to face the uncertainty of no deal&comma; then the UK may not leave at all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In what she described as the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;biggest and most important decision that any MP of our generation will be asked to make”&comma; the British Prime Minister said it was time for politicians to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;deliver” for the people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Writing in the Sunday Express&comma; Mrs May said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You&comma; the British people&comma; voted to leave&period; And then&comma; in the 2017 General Election&comma; 80&percnt; of you voted for MPs who stood on manifestos to respect that referendum result&period; You have delivered your instructions&period; Now it is our turn to deliver for you&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When you turned out to vote in the referendum&comma; you did so because you wanted your voice to be heard&period; Some of you put your trust in the political process for the first time in decades&period; We cannot – and must not – let you down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>My message to Parliament this weekend is simple&colon; it is time to forget the games and do what is right for our country&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Doing so would be a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy&period; So my message to Parliament this weekend is simple&colon; it is time to forget the games and do what is right for our country&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her stark warning came as Downing Street said it was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;extremely concerned” about a backbench plot to change Commons rules to<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>enable backbench motions to take precedence over Government business if Mrs May’s deal falls&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Under the rebels’ plan&comma; reported in the Sunday Times&comma; the Government would lose control of parliamentary business which would threaten Brexit legislation and the Government’s ability to govern&period; It was previously thought only ministers could put a halt to Britain leaving with no deal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Elsewhere&comma; it emerged that Speaker John Bercow met Tory remain rebel Dominic Grieve on Tuesday&comma; the day before his controversial decision to allow MPs a vote on Mr Grieve’s amendment to the timetable of the Brexit deal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As speculation mounted that Mrs May’s deal would be defeated&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>The British Prime Minister faced calls from a predecessor&comma; John Major&comma; to revoke Article 50 to halt Brexit – as he warned it would be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;morally reprehensible” to crash out without a deal&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Pressure mounted on Jeremy Corbyn to trigger a confidence vote in the Government&comma; but shadow chancellor John McDonnell said his party would make such a move when &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the time is right”&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>It emerged that 14 military planners have been deployed to four key Whitehall departments to assist with no-deal planning&comma; according to a Freedom of Information request by the Observer&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>More than 100 MEPs from 26 EU member states signed a letter calling on the UK to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;reconsider” the Brexit decision&comma; saying the UK’s departure will &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;weaken all of us”&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>Mrs May faced further opposition to her deal from her former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He used an article in the Sunday Telegraph to urge MPs to vote down Mrs May’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;bad” deal to send a message to Brussels that the UK &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;will not be bullied”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said if it is defeated&comma; Britain should continue to press the EU for a deal that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;respects the referendum but if Brussels’ &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;intransigence” persists &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we must be willing to leave the EU at the end of March on World Trade Organisation terms”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><center><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure>&NewLine;<section class&equals;"quote">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quote-wrapper"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;section>&NewLine;<&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><&sol;center><&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed7bf5f2c69">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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