- Theresa May is struggling to get support from her party and parliament for her Brexit plans.
- The EU is refusing to budge on its red lines as the chances of a no-deal Brexit surge.
- Some MPs are starting to consider a "government of national unity" to break the deadlock.
- National unity governments have been formed before. Could it happen again?
LONDON — It is difficult to see a way through the Brexit impasse that Theresa May currently faces. Torn between a soft Brexit that half of her MPs reject and a hard Brexit that the other half rejects, she has pursued a "third way," which the EU will reject.
That is making the threat of a no-deal Brexit greater by the day. And in a parliament which looks so paralysed, Conservative MP Anna Soubry's radical, somewhat fantastical, proposal for a cross-party national unity government — a tradition reserved for times of acute national crisis — does at least merit consideration.
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