PM risks losing Brexit speed and scope with appeal, senior Conservatives say

Prime Minister Theresa May should accept that triggering Britain's exit from the European Union requires parliamentary approval and drop the government's Supreme Court appeal, senior members of her party said on Saturday. By doing so she would speed up Britain's exit from the EU and limit the risk that devolved administrations in Scotland and Northern Ireland, whose electorate voted to keep EU membership, are given leeway to veto it. Sir Oliver Letwin, a former junior minister who briefly led th