UK PM May seeks 'one more push' from EU on Brexit

Prime Minister Theresa May called on the European Union on Friday to make "one more push" to get the Brexit deal over the line in time for the Britain's exit from the bloc in three weeks.

The beleaguered British leader's request for an additional concession from Brussels comes with Britain on the brink of hurtling out of the EU after 46 years with very few arrangements in place.

The British parliament is set to vote Tuesday on May's existing deal with Brussels after rejecting it by a historic margin last month.

But last-gasp negotiations between UK and EU envoys ended in acrimony on Wednesday and May still lacks the assurances she has been after from Brussels to get her deal through.

May told an audience of factory workers in the northeastern fishing town of Grimsby that Britain may never split off from the other 27 nations if Brussels failed to help her now.

The deal "needs just one more push to address the final, specific concerns of our parliament," May said in prepared remarks.

"So let's not hold back. Let's do what is necessary for MPs to back the deal on Tuesday," she said.

"Because if MPs reject the deal, nothing is certain. It would be at a moment of crisis."
"That would be a political failure. It would let down the more than 17 million people who voted to leave the EU and do profound damage to their faith in our democracy."