The prime minister urges France and Germany to back a Brexit extension while the Tory and Labour parties continue talks
THE BRITISH prime minister, Theresa May, travelled to Berlin and Paris on April 9th to meet her counterparts, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron. She was trying to persuade them to back a further delay to Brexit, until June 30th, despite considerable scepticism among exasperated European leaders as to whether her plan could work. Some, doubtful about Britain’s ability to agree on what kind of Brexit it wants by that date, want a much longer extension.
European leaders, like most British MPs, are loth to see Britain crash out of the European Union without a deal on April 12th, the current deadline. Nonetheless, having seen the prime minister’s own plan defeated in Parliament three times, they want to see evidence that her government has another way forward. That, however, remains murky. Mrs May has turned to the opposition for help, but negotiations between her team and the Labour Party have so far made little progress.
Meanwhile Parliament has contributed another complication to the Brexit imbroglio. On April 8th it passed a bill brought by Yvette Cooper, a Labour MP, which forces the prime minister to request a Brexit extension rather then deliberately crash out of the EU without a deal. The government opposed the bill, claiming it was unnecessary as Mrs May was already asking for an extension.
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