9 days before Brexit, Theresa May to ask EU for 'short delay'
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May will request a short delay to Brexit in a letter to the European Union on Wednesday , the BBC and Sky reported.
Just nine days before the March 29 exit date that May set two years ago by serving the formal Article 50 divorce papers, May is due to write to European Council President Donald Tusk to ask for a delay.
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