Britain's ruling Conservatives were mired in divisions over Brexit Sunday ahead of a crunch cabinet meeting next week and following warnings from the EU that time is running out to reach a withdrawal deal. Just days after backbench lawmakers told Prime Minister Theresa May that its "departure must be absolute", Business Secretary Greg Clark refused to rule out indefinitely extending a transition period out of the EU.
Under the current timetable the implementation period is set to end in December 2020, after Britain leaves the bloc next March. "It seems to me that any reasonable person would have to be guided by the facts and the evidence," Clark told Sky News. "There are things that would need to (be) put in place, computer systems for example, posts at the border," he added. Andrea Jenkyns, who quit a junior government role to campaign on Brexit, delivered a letter Friday to May signed by more than 30 Tories insisting the opposite.
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