Parliament votes to delay Brexit beyond this month
By William Booth and William Booth London bureau chief Email Bio Follow Karla Adam Karla Adam London correspondent covering the United Kingdom Email Bio Follow March 14 at 2:23 PM LONDON — British lawmakers voted Thursday to seek to delay Brexit — maybe for weeks, maybe for months — after Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans for leaving the European Union have been repeatedly rejected by a raucous Parliament trying to wrestle control of the exit from the government.
Christopher Chope, a hard-line Brexiteer and fellow member of May’s Conservative Party, confessed he felt May’s cold steel. “Instead of accepting verdict of House, she is stubbornly continuing to assert that her deal is a good deal. And now she is holding a pistol to our heads by threatening that we will lose Brexit altogether,” he told the House of Commons during the debate.
But in a later meeting with the Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar at the White House, Trump was critical of May’s leadership. French President Emmanuel Macron does not support granting a short extension, if it is merely for Britain to try to reopen negotiations over terms with the European Union, an official from Macron’s office told Reuters.
Passions are high — as hard-line Brexiteers fear May’s strategy will either force them to accept a deal they don’t like or they will lose their beloved Brexit.
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