May says she will give lawmakers a chance to vote on new Brexit referendum

21 May 2019, 6:43 pm Edit

British Prime Minister Theresa May says Parliament will get the chance to vote on whether to hold a new referendum on Britain’s European Union membership, as she tries to get lawmakers to back her divorce deal with the European Union.

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a press conference inside 10 Downing Street in London, November 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)

May says that an EU withdrawal agreement bill that she plans to bring to Parliament next month will include a provision for a vote on whether to hold a new public poll on whether to leave. That is a key demand of many opposition lawmakers.

May is offering concessions in what she says is a “last chance” to secure an orderly British departure from the bloc.

The deal that she struck with the EU has been rejected by UK lawmakers three times already.

— AP