Brexit: Theresa May to make plea for 30 June delay at EU summit
The UK is currently due to leave the EU at 23:00 BST on Friday, 12 March.
Mrs May will head to Belgium this afternoon, after her weekly clash with Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn at Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons. At the summit - which begins at around 18:00 local time on Wednesday evening - Mrs May will formally present her case for a short delay until 30 June, with the option for the UK to leave earlier if her Brexit deal is ratified.'Don't humiliate either side'
Any delay should have conditions attached, he said - including that there would be no reopening of the withdrawal agreement talks. And the UK would have the option to leave earlier if a Brexit deal was ratified.France's Emmanuel Macron and the EU's Donald Tusk gesture for Mrs May to join a group photo at the EU summit last month
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