May seeks EU help over Brexit as ministers revolt

Bloomberg

Theresa May will lead a last-ditch diplomatic drive to persuade European Union leaders to save her Brexit agreement, as she faces a rebellion from Cabinet ministers who want to stop the UK leaving without a deal.
May’s allies believe she has just nine days left to save her strategy before members of Parliament run out of patience and step in to take over the process in a vote scheduled for February 27.
As the clock runs down, May’s dispatching her ministers across Europe in an attempt to persuade the EU to make concessions so that skeptical colleagues in her Conservative Party can vote for a re-written deal.
“The message I’m coming with is a very simple one, which is that there is a way through this,” Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told reporters in Brussels as he entered a meeting of EU foreign ministers. “What we need is trust and vision on both sides because what’s at stake here is Britain’s relationship with its European neighbors for the next 25 years.”
After Parliament rejected the draft withdrawal agreement in a January vote, the UK is on course to plunge out of the EU on March 29 with no new trade arrangement in place. Business leaders are becoming increasingly anxious about a no-deal Brexit and frustrated at the lack of political progress to stop what economists fear would be a major hit to the UK economy.
Cabinet ministers opposing a no-deal split will tackle May
directly this week.