Breaking News: UK: PM Theresa May wins key vote on Brexit

Eren Sengezer FXStreet

The UK government has defeated the amendment proposed by the pro-EU conservative lawmakers to win the Brexit 'meaningful vote' (319 vs. 303) in the Parliament.

"The whole drama over giving Parliament a meaningful vote - and that 16-vote difference today - underscores how May's biggest problem isn't Brexit; It's the result of that election a year ago that left her with a minority government in a deeply divided country. May herself has struggled ever since to say what she really wants," Bloomberg's Theresa Raphael reports.

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As an economist at heart, Eren Sengezer specializes in the assessment of the short-term and long-term impacts of macroeconomic data, central bank policies and political developments on financial assets.

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