There are now just under 100 days until the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.

To celebrate this milestone, Prime Minister Theresa May has ignored calls to negotiate a better deal with the European Commission, ruled out any alternative plan, refused to consider a second referendum, maintained her line that Parliament’s “meaningful vote” on the EU/U.K.-agreed divorce should wait until 14 January (just 10 weeks before the United Kingdom is due to leave ), and allowed Members of Parliament (MP) a 17-day break while the country struggles with one of its biggest ever constitutional crises.

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