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UK parliament's indicative votes may not produce a deliverable result - minister

Published 27/03/2019, 08:46
© Reuters. Britain's Conservative Party's leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom is seen outside Downing Street in London

LONDON (Reuters) - Andrea Leadsom, who is in charge of the British government's business in parliament, has warned that lawmakers' plans to wrest control of the Brexit process on Wednesday may produce a result that the government cannot negotiate.

© Reuters. Britain's Conservative Party's leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom is seen outside Downing Street in London

"The reality is that indicative votes are simply that, they are indicative and the problem looking through the amendments (...) a lot of those are simply undeliverable and certainly not within the time frame," she told BBC radio.

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