May puts on brave face at G20 as Brexit deal flounders back home

PM is steadfastly saying she has no plan B, but other leaders are starting to sound uneasy

When Theresa May addressed reporters on her RAF Voyager plane en route to the G20, she wore an eye-catching bracelet that appeared to depict the Great Wave off Kanagawa, the famous Japanese painting of a tsunami. Hokusai’s famous painting depicts a huge wave threatening three small boats, whose fishermen look calm and decisive.

It could hardly have been a more appropriate metaphor for May’s approach to this summit, which could be her last as a national leader if her mutinous backbenchers get their way in the Brexit vote next week. The latest analysis suggests more than 100 Tory MPs could vote against her deal.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2DWM711

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