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U.K. Parliament Rejects ‘No Deal’ Brexit Option

The option would have required Britain to leave the European Union with no plan in place.

The British parliament on Wednesday voted to reject the “no deal” Brexit option that would have forced the country to leave the European Union without any deal in place. Lawmakers must now decide to either accept Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposal—which has been resoundingly derided and rejected twice, most recently on Tuesday—or seek an extension to the Mar. 29 deadline. Parliament was expected to vote to reject "no deal" in a vote backed by the PM but there was also an even more staunchly anti-Brexit amendment that also narrowly passed. A few hardline pro-Brexit MPs backed the no deal option as a “clean Brexit,”—but most believe that it would have been a dangerous step forward, especially because forecasters have warned that it could shrink Britain's economy by 9.3 percent. “The deal is a dud. No deal will be removed this evening,” a lawmaker told The Daily Beast ahead of the vote. “There will be an extension and we will the repeat this shitshow as the new deadline approaches. It's the ultimate can kick.”

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