Theresa May warns of long Brexit delay if MPs do not back her deal
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Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, May said that if MPs do back her deal before the European Council summit on Thursday, she would seek"a short technical extension" beyond the March 29 date to leave the EU. "The idea of the British people going to the polls to elect MEPs three years after voting to leave the EU hardly bears thinking about.May warned that if MPs failed to back her deal before the European Council summit,"we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever".
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