{"id":1130305,"date":"2026-08-04T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1130305\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:22:18","slug":"uk-may-under-huge-pressure-from-some-ministers-to-pursue-no-deal-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1130305\/","title":{"rendered":"UK May under huge pressure from some ministers to pursue &#8216;no deal&#8217; Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Prime Minister Theresa May is under huge pressure from some members of her top team of ministers who want to Britain to leave the European Union without a deal, a former minister said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Alistair Burt, who quit as a junior foreign office minister last week in order to support votes in parliament on alternative Brexit options, also said he did not think holding a national election would be helpful to the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">When asked if May should lead the party into an election, Burt told Sky News: &#8220;The prime minister has already said that she&#8217;s expecting to leave after we get the first stage of Brexit going through &#8211; I don&#8217;t anticipate a general election before that is done. So probably the answer would be &#8216;no&#8217;.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Theresa May is under huge pressure from some members of her top team of ministers who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1130306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5226],"tags":[307564,802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,18642,16,15],"class_list":["post-1130305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brexit","tag-alistair-burt","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-great-britain","tag-may","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117038635145152794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}