Theresa May asks EU to extend Article 50 until 30 June as EU presses for 2020 extension March 20, 2019 Theresa May has asked the EU to delay Brexit by three months to 30 June. The Prime Minister has confirmed that she has asked Brussels to extend Article 50 – the mechanism that allows the UK to leave the EU – for three months rather than to seek a longer extension. Read more: Sterling dips [...]
Labour MP launches last-minute challenge to May’s decision to pursue ‘short’ Brexit delay March 20, 2019 A Labour MP has tabled a last-ditch challenge to Theresa May's decision to seek only a short delay to Brexit. Alison McGovern formally requested an emergency parliamentary debate today on the Prime Minister's plans to extend Brexit. Read more: Prime Minister rules out long Brexit delay It is not clear if her emergency debate motion [...]
Sterling dips lower as Theresa May seeks only a short Brexit delay from EU March 20, 2019 Sterling took a hit this morning as it emerged Theresa May has ruled out seeking a long Brexit delay from the EU. Read more: Prime Minister rules out long Brexit delay Downing Street said the Prime Minister will only request a short extension to Article 50, likely to the end of June, as the UK [...]
For once, John Bercow’s egomaniac meddling actually has a point March 20, 2019 John Bercow is a pompous, smug, self-important showman. The only thing he likes more than the sound of his own voice is being in the limelight – and he isn’t afraid to ruffle feathers in his never-ending search for it. He has turned the centuries-old office of the speaker of the House of Commons into [...]
Brexit: Theresa May will not seek long delay to Article 50 as she asks EU for short extension March 20, 2019 Theresa May will not seek a long Brexit extension when she writes to the EU to seek a delay to Article 50 today, according to reports. Read more: UK must commit to new political 'event' to get Brexit delay, warns Barnier The Prime Minister is set to ask for more time for parliament to back [...]
UK needs to commit to new political ‘event’ to get Brexit delay, warns Michel Barnier March 19, 2019 A long delay to Brexit must be linked to a new political event or process, the EU’s chief negotiator has warned. Speaking in Brussels, Michel Barnier set out the reassurances he believes the EU 27 will want from the UK before granting an extension to the negotiating period. Theresa May is set to write to [...]
Brexit: With ten days to go, what is going to happen? March 19, 2019 | City Talk In a process where the phrase ‘dumpster fire’ is already probably more accurate than anything normally used to describe political process, speaker John Bercow threw a grenade into the mix by refusing to allow a third meaningful vote on Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement. It was a move that surprised many – when we thought the [...]
Angela Merkel: I will fight for Brexit deal until the last minute of 29 March March 19, 2019 Angela Merkel has vowed to fight until the “last minute” of 29 March to secure a Brexit deal as the UK prepares to ask for its departure from the EU to be delayed. The German Chancellor said she was waiting to see the details of Theresa May’s proposals for an extension to the negotiating period, [...]
Downing Street confirms Theresa May will ask EU for an extension to Article 50 March 19, 2019 Theresa May's spokesperson has confirmed that the Prime Minister will write to Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, to ask for a delay to Brexit. Last week the lines coming from No 10 was that a short extension to Article 50 – the mechanism that allows the UK to leave the EU – [...]
‘London, please deliver’: EU leaders react to possible Brexit delay following John Bercow ruling March 19, 2019 EU leaders have hit back at the "unacceptable" uncertainty around Brexit stirred by John Bercow's decision to block a third meaningful vote on Theresa May's withdrawal agreement. France's Europe minister Nathalie Loiseau said an extension to Article 50 – the mechanism that allows the UK to leave the EU – without an "objective or strategy" would be [...]