British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said on Friday (October 18) that the government is confident that they could get its Brexit deal approved in parliament. In one of the most striking flourishes of the three-year Brexit drama, Johnson confounded his opponents on Thursday (October 17) by clinching a new deal with the EU that had promised it would never reopen a treaty it agreed last year.
Yet Johnson, the face of the Brexit campaign in the 2016 referendum, must now ratify the deal in the British parliament where he has no majority and opponents are plotting maximum political damage ahead of an imminent election.
The numbers are too close to call: Johnson must garner 318 votes in the 650-seat parliament to get a deal approved. Yet his Northern Irish allies are opposed to a deal and the three main opposition parties have pledged to vote it down.
Downing Street is casting the Saturday (October 19) vote as a last chance to get Brexit done with lawmakers facing the option of either approving the deal or propelling the United Kingdom to a disorderly no-deal exit that could divide the West, hurt global growth and trigger violence in Northern Ireland.
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