UK PM May has written to the European Union to request another extension to give her country more time to work out its ongoing Brexit deadlock.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May has written to the European Union to request another extension to give her country more time to work out itsShe asked European Council President Donald Tusk on Friday to delay the divorce deadline until June 30, with the option to terminate the postponement if a deal is worked out before then.
E.U. leaders are due to meet Wednesday and 27 must unanimously agree for May's request to be approved. The U.K. is currently due to leave the E.U. next Friday — April 12 — which itself is an extension from the original withdrawal date of March 29. "Having reluctantly sought an extension to the Article 50 period last month, the government must now do so again," May wrote Friday, referring to the Article 50 clause that sets out the U.K.'s European departure.
May has negotiated a deal with the E.U. but it has been repeatedly rejected by British lawmakers, who have also failed to rally around any other alternative plan., something that has provoked uproar and suspicion from both parties.
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