Brexit deal
Johnson sends unsigned letter to EU asking for Brexit delay
But he was compelled, by a law passed last month by opponents, to send a letter to the bloc asking to push back the deadline to 31 January after lawmakers...
More than three years since the United Kingdom voted 52-48% to leave the European project, Johnson sought parliament’s approval for the divorce treaty he struck in Brussels on Thursday.
Britain is due to leave the EU on 31 October more than three years after voters shocked investors and employers by opting to take the country out of the world’s biggest trading area.
“I had my concerns and my doubts. But I think, on balance, the key thing is we’ve just got to get this done,” Duncan Smith, a hardline Brexit supporter, told BBC radio.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been raising support for his deal ahead of the crunch vote during what is expected to be a lengthy session on Saturday.
Johnson said he was confident that Parliament, which will sit for an extraordinary session on Saturday to vote on the Brexit agreement, would approve the deal.
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar does not want to talk, the magazine reported, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are not likely to push the European Union to discuss UK’s offer until Ireland is ready to negotiate.
The contest has been dominated by the question of how and when Britain will leave the EU, Britain’s biggest political crisis in a generation.
Former British foreign secretary Boris Johnson will be summoned to appear before a court over allegations of misconduct in public office, Judge Margot Coleman said in a written decision.
The populist party, founded just three months ago, capitalised on public anger over delays to Britain's exit from the European Union, winning almost 32% with almost all votes counted.
The Conservatives lost 1,332 seats on English local councils that were up for re-election, and Labour - which would typically aim to gain hundreds of seats in a mid-term vote - instead lost 81.
May has so far been unable to get the exit package she agreed last year with the EU approved by the British parliament, meaning Brexit day has been pushed back to avoid leaving without a deal.
Here are the main ways Britain would be affected in case of a "no-deal" ending to the 46-year partnership.
Speaking on the 'Karima Brown Show' on Monday night, Trade and Industries Minister Rob Davies said that should the UK leave without a deal, trade rules would still be applicable, affecting products like the automotive industry.
Labour’s demands include keeping Britain in a customs union with the EU, something which is hard to reconcile with May’s desire for Britain to have an independent trade policy.
In a last-ditch bid to get her deal through parliament, May opened talks with Corbyn last week to try to strike a deal on Britain’s future ties with the EU in exchange for his support for her divorce deal, the Withdrawal Agreement.
May said on Tuesday she would seek another short extension to Brexit beyond 12 April, in order to try and work with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to get her thrice-rejected Brexit deal approved by parliament.
EU officials said on Tuesday that a no-deal Brexit was becoming more likely and the European Central Bank said financial markets needed to price in the growing risk.
The EU's chief negotiator warned that if Theresa May cannot get this withdrawal agreement past the House of Commons, then there are only two other options available before London leaves the union on or shortly after 12 April.