EU to back Brexit transition demands as tensions rock May

Michel Barnier, the European Chief Negotiator of the Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50, speaks with Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 17 January 2018. [Patrick Seeger/EPA/EFE]

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The terms have infuriated pro-Brexit lawmakers in embattled Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party who say it leaves Britain a "vassal state" of Brussels.

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