EU leaders meeting in Brussels say they are likely to grant UK a Brexit delay if parliament backs PM May's government
Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray holds up signs outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain on March 20, 2019.
May angered many with a televised speech late Wednesday, blaming a divided Parliament for an impasse that has left Britain eight days away from crashing out of the bloc with no divorce deal. As she arrived in Brussels to lobby her European partners to extend the Brexit date from March 29 until June 30, May did not rule out taking Britain out of the EU with no deal if the divorce agreement she reached with the EU in November is rejected again by British lawmakers.
She said the bloc would likely set a late-May deadline ‚ or [a] long extension, and in that case the UK will have to organise elections."Britain so far has no plans to take part in the vote because it hopes to leave the bloc before the new parliament is in session.May's deal has been roundly rejected twice by the UK Parliament, and EU leaders want evidence that May can convince lawmakers to change their minds next week.
UK opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was also meeting senior EU officials in Brussels, trying to persuade them that Parliament can find an alternative to May's rejected Brexit plan. With just over a week before the country is set to end more than 40 years of frictionless trade, the letter says, "firms and communities across the UK are not ready for this outcome. The shock to our economy would be felt by generations to come."Meanwhile, the Bank of England said on Thursday that UK companies have ratcheted up their preparations for a disorderly "no-deal" Brexit over the past couple of months.
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