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After Theresa May’s historic defeat, could Brexit be called off?

ON JAN. 15, THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SUFFERED its biggest defeat in modern parliamentary history, after lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s flagship Brexit deal by a margin of 230 votes. The deal was intended to smooth Britain’s departure from the E.U. by setting out the terms of the two entities’ post-split relationship. Unless

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