UK MPs Hold Votes on Resetting Course of Brexit

British lawmakers will hold a series of votes on Tuesday that could reset the course for Brexit over the head of Theresa May, piling further pressure on the embattled prime minister, reports AFP. 

With exactly two months to go until Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union, MPs will debate May's plan to attempt to renegotiate the deal she struck with Brussels even though EU leaders have repeatedly ruled this out.

The draft divorce deal was overwhelmingly rejected by MPs on January 15 and deeply divided parliamentarians have been coming up with their own ideas to take a different path.

After May opens a day of debate, MPs are set to vote from 1900 GMT on measures that could include preventing a no-deal Brexit, delaying Brexit, changing the negotiated deal and even seizing control of the entire process.

House of Commons speaker John Bercow will choose which amendments are voted on -- and his choices could prove controversial.

Pro-Brexit MPs have accused the speaker -- who publicly declared that he voted for Remain in the seismic 2016 referendum on Britain's EU membership -- of using his traditionally impartial positon to try to scupper Brexit.