The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said the only talks that mattered now were “between the government in London and the Parliament in London”, indicating very little scope for concessions from the EU side ahead of Tuesday's vote.
Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group had claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in which 40 CRPF soldiers were killed.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has come under increasing pressure to delay the March 29 deadline for Britain's exit from the European Union as the prospect of a withdrawal agreement being passed by the UK Parliament continues to hang in the balance.
Andrea Leadsom, Leader of the House of Commons, said in a radio interview on Friday that May will go to Brussels in the coming days to continue negotiations, but no timetable was stated.
It was being dubbed as the Valentine's Day revolt as British Prime Minister Theresa May faced the prospect of another parliamentary bruising during a Brexit vote in the House of Commons on Thursday evening.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and other senior members of the royal family may have to be evacuated if the UK experiences riots as a result of a no-deal Brexit next month, a media report said on Sunday.
In a series of votes on Tuesday, lawmakers rejected a no-deal Brexit by 318 votes to 310, undermining the May government's argument that Britain would be willing to crash out of the 28-member EU without an agreement on March 29.
May said that, after taking the votes into account and talking to the EU, her revised deal would be brought back to the Commons "as soon as possible" for a second "meaningful vote".
May won a narrow victory, 325 votes to 306 votes, on an opposition motion seeking to topple her government and trigger a general election.
Following her defeat in the House of Commons, May said that the MPs have established what they are against but not what they are for.
The British lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favour of an amendment that will force her to present an alternative plan for Brexit within three days if her controversial EU withdrawal deal does not pass in the House of Commons next week.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday, May said her critics risk damaging democracy if they oppose her plan, the BBC reported.
Arriving at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, May said "I think it is right that another party leader takes us into that general election."
British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a political crisis over her Brexit deal Wednesday, winning a no-confidence vote by Conservative lawmakers that would have ended her leadership of party and country.
Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May will face a vote of no-confidence on Wednesday triggered by her own party lawmakers over her handling of the controversial Brexit deal.
The UK Parliament is expected to vote on the deal in early December but its approval is by no means guaranteed, with Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP, the DUP and many Conservatives MPs set to vote against.
A defiant May insisted Brexit meant making “the right choices, not the easy ones” and urged lawmakers to support the deal “in the national interest.”
May hailed the Cabinet’s backing as a "decisive step" that will enable Britain to move on in the ongoing negotiations with the economic bloc.
Macron, whose poll ratings have fallen sharply in recent months, will be hosting dozens of leaders converging on Paris for the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War.
The British prime minister said she is confident that Britain will finally control its own borders.
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