UK Prime Minister’s Brexit Plans Opposed by 80 Rebels in Her Party, Says Former Minister

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in London on Sept. 5, 2018. Reuters/Hannah McKay
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LONDON—British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party faces a “catastrophic split” if she persists with her proposals on Brexit, which 80 or more of her lawmakers are prepared to vote against, a former junior minister said.

Such public criticism, a day after former foreign minister Boris Johnson cast her Brexit plans as “a suicide vest” wrapped around the British constitution indicates how hard it could be for May to get any Brexit deal approved.