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With a stroke of the queen’s pen, a new act of Parliament gave Prime Minister Theresa May the power to set in motion Britain’s exit from the European Union.
May appears to be in a commanding position. Her main Labour opponents are in disarray, her Conservative Party is as many as 19 percentage points ahead in the opinion polls, and, barring the occasional blip, she’s meeting little resistance in her pursuit of a hard, clean Brexit. Her goal remains, she said after leaving an EU meeting in Brussels earlier this month, to build the “independent, self-governing global Britain the British have called for.”