LONDON: The UK might be forced to create a national unity government to end the impasse over Britain leaving the European Union (EU), as Prime Minister Theresa May clings to the Brexit divorce agreement that Parliament has rejected three times, a senior Conservative suggested Saturday (Sunday in Manila).

Former Education secretary Nicky Morgan’s comments came a day after the House of Commons rebuffed the Prime Minister’s call for lawmakers to “put aside self and party,” sending her Brexit deal to its latest defeat. The rejection leaves the UK facing the stark prospect of a chaotic departure from the EU in just two weeks — unless squabbling politicians can put aside their differences and engineer a long delay in the process of leaving the bloc.

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