Anti-Brexit demo as UK cabinet hold crucial meeting at Chequers

Описание: (6 Jul 2018) A group of youngsters gathered outside the prime minister's country retreat, Chequers where Cabinet ministers were meeting Friday, to protest against Brexit.
The five youngsters held up a banner that read "Your Brexit deal screws our future. Explain yourselves."
British Prime Minister Theresa May faced resistance and potential rebellion from hard-core Brexit backers in her Conservative government Friday as she gathered her fractious Cabinet to hammer out a plan for future trade with the European Union.
Almost 30 Cabinet ministers were being sequestered inside Chequers - without their phones - for all-day talks on a compromise plan that May hopes will unite the government, and be accepted by the bloc.
It's a tall order.
With just nine months to go until the UK leaves the bloc, May said the government has "a great opportunity - and a duty" to agree upon a plan.
But pro-Brexit ministers including Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson have doubts about her proposal, which would see Britain stick closely to EU rules for trade in goods.
Brexit-backing ministers believe that would limit Britain's ability to strike new trade deals with the United States and other countries around the world.
A more pro-EU group that includes Treasury chief Philip Hammond thinks it's essential to retain close economic ties with the bloc and its market of 500 million people.
That view has been echoed by big manufacturers including Airbus and Jaguar Land Rover, who warn they could abandon Britain if the EU and the U.K. cannot strike a strong free trade deal.
Airbus alone employs some 14,000 workers in Britain.

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