Weakened May Turns To Brussels For Brexit Help

Britain’s weakened prime minister, Theresa May, said on Thursday she did not expect to secure an immediate breakthrough in Brexit talks that would provide her fractured party with the kind of reassurances needed to get her deal through parliament. The European Union’s response as she arrived in Brussels for two days of talks with fellow EU leaders at a summit was bound to disappoint May, fresh from surviving a mutiny against her leadership within the Conservative party. The other 27 national leaders were wary of giving Britain any legal assurances over the most contentious element of their tentative Brexit deal — the emergency fix for the Irish border — partly because they expected May would come back again to ask for more in January.