Britain's battle over Brexit resumes yesterday as parliament returns from its Christmas break to debate and -- most likely -- defeat Prime Minister Theresa May's unpopular EU divorce deal. The stakes could hardly be higher as the clock ticks down to the moment the world's fifth-biggest economy splits from its main trading partner on March 29. May and the other 27 EU leaders agreed on a draft
agreement in November designed to keep the process as orderly and damage free as possible. The accord took nearly two years to negotiate but has managed to upset just about everyone in British politics. May survived her party's resulting leadership no-confidence motion but was forced to abort a December vote on the pact in parliament after admitting it would lose by a "significant margin".