May has a tough day ahead as she arrives in Brussels to lobby her European partners to extend the Brexit date from March 29 until June 30
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She faced a backlash for her comments from lawmakers, including from some in her own Conservative Party. Merkel told German lawmakers Thursday that “we can comply in principle with this request if we were to have a positive vote next week on the withdrawal documents in the British Parliament.” “We will, despite these measures we have taken, work until the last day — I will say until the last hour — to ensure that this emergency planning doesn’t come into effect,” she said. “We will do everything in the remaining, admittedly few, days to achieve an orderly, joint solution.”The EU “will certainly be inclined to help to talk to the U.K. Parliament,” she said, and that “we will definitely approve ,” the Baltic News Agency said, citing Lithuanian radio.
But Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said she was simply expressing frustration and tapping into the public’s exasperated mood. Parliament must come to a consensus in a time of national decision, he told the BBC.
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