UK Politics

A quick summary for those who have forgotten...
  • 23 June 2016: The UK votes to leave the EU with 51.9% in favour of leaving and 48.1% for the remain side
  • 12 July 2016: Theresa May takes over from David Cameron as prime minister
  • 29 March 2017: Mrs May triggers Article 50 starting a two year process of the UK leaving the EU
  • 8 June 2017: The Conservatives lose their majority, after Theresa May calls a snap election
  • 26 June 2017: Formal negotiations on withdrawal begin between the UK and the EU
  • 14 November 2018: The withdrawal agreement is agreed by the UK and EU
  • 10 December 2018: Theresa May pulls a vote on her Brexit deal
  • 15 January 2019: The prime minister loses a vote on her deal by 230 votes - the largest defeat for a sitting government in history
  • 12 March 2019: MPs vote against the deal for a second time, despite reassurances about the Northern Ireland backstop
  • 13-14 March 2019: MPs vote against a no-deal Brexit and in favour or extending Article 50
  • 20 March 2019: The prime minister writes to European Council President Donald Tusk asking to extend Article 50 until 30 June 2019
 
Nick Gutteridge, Daily Express Europe correspondent:

EU official says that when leaders asked May what she was going to do if her deal was voted down, she would only reply that she was following her 'Plan A' of getting it through. It was then they decided 'she didn't have a plan so they needed to come up with one for her'.

Plan B is Plan A::)
 
Apparently the EU has helpfully stepped up with a Plan B + C + D...
'EUCO agrees to an extension to 22 May, provided WA is approved by the HoC next week. If the WA is not approved by the HoC next week, EUCO agrees to an extension until 12 April, expects UK to indicate a way forward for the consideration of EUCO'
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A senior EU official says that on the basis of what has been decided, "in agreement with PM May": - either WA approved by UK MPs next week, then orderly Brexit on 22 May or - 12 April disorderly Brexit, or request for another extension.
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Wording described as "...very clever & driven by France & Germany."
 
It's been confirmed as an "unconditional" extension to the 12th April.
Black Wizard said:
The deal will fail in Parliament again next week and the government will face another no confidence motion.
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Indeed, although it's not clear if May will survive long enough to see this out.

Operation Yellowhammer! :edmetal:
 
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Reported figures for the Brexit march yesterday were a million people. Here are some of the placards...

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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May told the House of Commons that there was still not enough support among MPs to bring her Brexit deal back for a third vote, Politico reports.

“May’s government has until March 29 to win parliamentary approval for her deal, which would allow the U.K. to leave the EU with an agreement on May 22. If she fails to do, or does not hold a vote, the U.K. would have until April 12 to propose a new way forward or leave without a deal.”

No deal Brexit on the way.
 
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