LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Parliament has underscored Prime Minister Theresa May’s promise to give lawmakers a vote on whether to delay Brexit rather than leave the European Union at the end of March without a divorce deal.
Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage has warned that if Parliament votes to extend Article 50, Brexit will be delayed “again and again.”
Prime Minister Theresa May is reportedly set to rule out a clean, no-deal exit from the EU to stop mass resignations from remainer ministers.
EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says he can’t rule out that a delayed Brexit could mean the United Kingdom would participate in this spring’s European Parliament election.
Members of the Westminster Parliament are once again voting on a Brexit motion and amendments Thursday evening as both the British government, and parliamentary rebels work to keep hold of, or derail the Brexit process.
The clearest indication yet that the government is planning to once again break its own word to the British people and delay Brexit beyond the official March 29th date has come with the apparently overheard speech of top Brexit bureaucrat Olly Robbins, where he loudly discussed the options for Brexit in a hotel bar.
Theresa May has told members of the UK Parliament that “we all need to hold our nerve” with the European Union while alluding to the Brexit delay which several of her inner circle of senior ministers have referred in recent weeks.
Tory Brexiteer Andrew Bridgen MP has warned that Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party will threaten the future of the Conservative Party if his colleagues fail to deliver Brexit. MEP Nigel Farage announced that his Brexit Party has gained 35,000 supporters
Boris Johnson has again spoken out on Theresa May’s Brexit plan, indicating he could support the deal he has long campaigned against if the Prime Minister is able to achieve only very limited change to the text of the deal.
A senior lawyer has argued that the UK would put itself in a “very weak negotiating position” if it asked the EU to delay Brexit, resulting in the country being “blackmailed for further concessions” including more money and surrendering full sovereignty of Gibraltar.
As the government’s apparent intention to delay Brexit beyond the legal March 29th date moves beyond rumour to open secret, Britain’s Prime Minister insisted after disastrous talks with the European Union that she would be working to “deliver Brexit, and to deliver it on time.”
Hours before British Prime Minister Theresa May is due to travel to Brussels to meet with European Union leaders, the men she will be seeking to win concessions of went public with their determination to see no changes are made.
British Prime Minister Theresa May is set to meet with Northern Ireland’s main political parties as she seeks to break the impasse over her European Union divorce deal.
The leader of a Swedish populist party that has long campaigned to get a referendum on European Union membership for the nation said Tuesday that the punitive tactics of the European Union are enough for him to reconsider wanting to leave the EU — for now.
The German Chancellor appeared to throw British Prime Minister Theresa May a lifeline Tuesday morning when she was it was “humanly possible” to reach an agreement on Brexit, in comments that at least superficially appear to contradict those of other top EU figures in recent days.
Several senior European politicians and bureaucrats have spoken out Monday to pour cold water on British hopes of achieving even modest changes in the Brexit ‘deal’ arranged by Prime Minister Theresa May, as the nation closes in on the March 29th departure date.
The British Home Secretary has privately admitted the official date of departure for the United Kingdom from the European Union may have to be delayed, according to claims.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has vented the frustration felt by many over the European Union’s refusal to compromise over Brexit Wednesday, telling Eurocrats that it is their fanaticism and bad attitude that is pushing Britain towards a full, ‘no deal’ Brexit on World Trade Organisation terms.
The European Union’s Brexit negotiators flatly refused to accommodate any sort of renegotiation of the bloc’s ‘deal’ with the United Kingdom over Brexit, just hours after the nation’s Members of Parliament (MPs) voted to give the Prime Minister a mandate for change.
Members of the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament voted on amendments to the Government’s Brexit bill Tuesday night, exercising their power to make alterations and changes to proceedings and — some hope — delay and derail Brexit itself.
Up to 40 Government ministers could resign if they are blocked from backing procedures that could postpone Brexit or stop a clean break from the EU.
Chairman of the European Research Group Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that attempts to extend the deadline for the UK’s exit from the EU are a Remainer plot to stop Brexit.
Leave campaigner Nigel Farage has warned that Brexit is “on the verge of being betrayed” and Leavers must be prepared to continue the fight either in the face of Article 50 being delayed or a possible second referendum.
Theresa May has claimed she will deliver Brexit in the House of Commons, as doing otherwise would result in the British people’s faith in the country’s institutions to fall to “an all-time low”.
Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage has hit back at MPs who are attempting to stop the UK leaving the EU on March 29th without a deal, saying that nearly 500 MPs had already agreed to do just that in event of a no-deal.
Speaking after a morning of apparently terse negotiations in Brussels over the future of May’s “worst deal in history” Brexit agreement, the British Prime Minister admitted she’d had “robust discussions” with EU president Jean-Claude Juncker and that “further discussions” were possible.
Already one of the last to enter the summit room ahead of Friday’s session, May at one point made a beeline for Juncker and confronted him. Juncker got out of his chair to listen to her comments as May seemed rigid and angry in the tete-a-tete.
Against all reason, Theresa May – the worst Prime Minister in British history – has yet again survived an attempt to boot her out of office.
Television cameras set up ready for British Prime Minister Theresa May to be greeted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel caught a bizarre moment Tuesday afternoon as the British leader became trapped in her car.
British Prime Minister Theresa May was engaged in a last-ditch attempt to save her besieged Brexit deal Tuesday, meeting with Dutch leader Mark Rutte and Germany’s Angela Merkel after controversially deferring Tuesday’s planned vote in the UK House of Commons to prevent a near-certain defeat.
The gold ceremonial mace which is carried into the House of Common’s debating chamber each day was wielded in the chamber Monday evening, as tempers frayed over Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union.
Key Brexit backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg has called for political leaders from all factions and opinions on Brexit to maintain the trust of the British people in political processes by delivering on Brexit as promised.
British Prime Minister Theresa May is to announce a delay on the so-called meaningful vote scheduled to take place in Parliament Tuesday, according to reports.
The highest court in the European Union has ruled that the United Kingdom remains sovereign in one key aspect — in its ability to unilaterally choose to remain in the European Union.
Nigel Farage has confirmed he is planning to launch a new political force to save Brexit, vowing he “won’t lie down” as the political establishment tries to overturn the referendum result.
British Prime Minister Theresa May is defying recommendations from colleagues to delay a vote on her Brexit deal in the House of Commons, despite facing an almost certain defeat.
Philip Hammond has pushed for Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan, telling Parliament Wednesday that it is better than a Brexit “betrayal” where the United Kingdom doesn’t leave the European Union at all.
The scale of the deceit of Theresa May’s so-called “worst deal in history” deal has been dramatically revealed after the government was forced to publish a key legal document by a vote in Parliament.
Supporters of the European Union in Britain have won an ironic victory at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has ruled that the United Kingdom has the sovereign right to act with total independence to decide to continue to subject itself to European Union control by cancelling the Brexit process.
The prime minister has said extending the Article 50 divorce period to accommodate a second referendum would invalidate the deal she has negotiated, making voting options uncertain.
