Theresa May tells Donald Tusk Brexit may need to be delayed even if MPs back her deal
A Downing Street spokesman said: ‘As the PM made clear to President Tusk, we are absolutely focused on getting the Brexit deal over the line and passing the necessary legislation so that we leave the EU on 29 March. That is within our grasp as we approach the Meaningful Vote.’A potential delay – and its length – has to be signed off by the leaders of the European Council, just as the withdrawal agreement.
Pro-Brexit supporter demonstrated with a placard saying ‘Extending Article 50 is Betrayal’ outside Parliament earlier this week Tory minister George Eustice resigned as farming and fisheries minister in protest at ‘humiliating’ plan to extend Article 50. Transport Chris Grayling was slammed by Eurotunnel for his ‘secretive’ process in awarding Brexit contracts
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