With a weakened leader and reeling from crisis, Britain hurtles into the Brexit unknown
At one of the most important junctures for Europe and the West since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, May's government is reeling from a crisis of her own making the loss of her parliamentary majority in a June 8 snap election she did not need to call.
Such is the collapse of May's authority that her entire Brexit strategy is being picked apart in public by her ministers, her lawmakers and her allies on the eve of formal negotiations which begin in Brussels on Monday at 0900 GMT.
Despite signals from both France and Germany last week that Britain would still be welcome to stay if it changed its mind, Brexit minister David Davis insisted on Sunday there would be no turning back.
'As I head to Brussels to open official talks to leave the EU, there should be no doubt — we are leaving the European Union,' said Davis, who will launch the talks with chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier....
Clarence Sexton | 8/31/2009
