Britain voted in June 2016 to quit the EU, but almost three years later, its politicians are deadlocked over how — and even whether — to leave.
LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May was set to ask the European Union on Wednesday for a delay to the country’s divorce from the bloc, due to take place in nine days.May’s Downing Street office said she would write to European Council President Donald Tusk requesting “a bit more time” for Britain to approve a divorce deal with the EU, delaying departure past the scheduled date of March 29.
“I think people are a bit tired of waiting for Parliament to get our act together and get the deal passed,” he said. May has warned opponents that a failure to approve her agreement would mean a long, and possibly indefinite, delay to Britain’s departure from the EU. “Theresa May is desperate once again to impose a binary choice between her deal and no deal despite Parliament clearly ruling out both of those options last week,” said Labour Party Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer.
“My impression is … that this week at the European Council there will be no decision, but that we will probably have to meet again next week, because Mrs. May doesn’t have agreement to anything, either in her Cabinet or in Parliament,” Juncker told Germany’s Deutschlandfunk radio.Britain’s political chaos has drawn reactions ranging from sympathy to scorn at home and around the world.
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