LONDON : Prime Minister Theresa May requested a three-month delay to Brexit yesterday after her failure to get a deal ratified by parliament left the United Kingdom's divorce from the European Union in turmoil. Nearly three years after Britain voted to leave the European...
LONDON : Prime Minister Theresa May requested a three-month delay to Brexit yesterday after her failure to get a deal ratified by parliament left the United Kingdom's divorce from the European Union in turmoil.
Nearly three years after Britain voted to leave the European Union and nine days before the formal exit deadline, British politicians are still arguing over how, when or even if the world's fifth largest economy should leave the bloc it first joined 1973. When Mrs May set the March 29 exit date two years ago by serving the formal Article 50 divorce papers, she declared there would be"no turning back" but parliament's refusal to ratify the withdrawal deal she agreed with the EU has thrust her government into crisis."As prime minister I am not prepared to delay Brexit any further than the 30th of June," she told a rowdy session of parliament.
"I have therefore this morning written to President Tusk, the president of the European Council, informing him that the UK seeks an extension to the article 50 period until 30th June," she said.
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