Brexit is up in the air after May announced plans to step down, triggering a leadership contest in the ruling Conservative Party that could bring a new prime minister to power who wants a much more decisive break with the EU. One of the candidates, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, said it would be '
LONDON/BRUSSELS - The European Union will not renegotiate the Brexit deal that Prime Minister Theresa May agreed, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday, as concerns grew that a successor to May could trigger a confrontation with the bloc.
Hunt, who voted to stay in the EU in the 2016 referendum but now accepts Brexit, said he would try for a new agreement that would take Britain out of the EU customs union while"respecting legitimate concerns" around the Irish border."I will have a short meeting with Theresa May, but I was crystal clear: There will be no renegotiation," Juncker said before a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels.
Any successor to May will have to accept that the Brexit divorce deal she agreed will not be ratified by the current British parliament so they will have to find a solution to the Irish border issue that upset many lawmakers. "Trying to deliver no deal through a general election is not a solution; it is political suicide," Hunt wrote in Tuesday's Daily Telegraph."A different deal is, therefore, the only solution – and what I will pursue if I am leader."
Under the party's rules for picking a new leader, Conservative lawmakers will select a shortlist of candidates and put them to the party's members for a vote. So far 10 candidates have said they are running.
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