Theresa May has changed her tune since Wednesday night
Theresa May will make a last-ditch attempt to persuade MPs to back her deal after Brussels agreed to delay Brexit to May 22 if she can get their support.
Leaders of the remaining 27 EU member states drew up the deal in a mammoth eight-hour meeting in Brussels, after turning down the PM’s plea to postpone Brexit from 29 March to 30 June.supports HTML5 videoMrs May spoke with European Council president Donald Tusk during and after the meeting, but aides declined to say whether she was able to feed into the discussions taking place in her absence.
And she left no doubt that she does not believe the UK should have to elect MEPs in the polls scheduled for May 23-26 across Europe.‘It would be wrong to ask people in the UK to participate in these elections three years after voting to leave the EU,’ she said.
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