Theresa May went to Brussels seeking to postpone Brexit after British MPs rejected - three times - the divorce deal she had struck with the EU. Consensus, however, was in short supplyOpposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, with whom May hopes to strike a compromise accord, called the Brexit delay "another milestone in the Government's mishandling of the entire Brexit process." EU leaders, weary of the Brexit melodrama and divided over how long a delay to grant, met for more than six hours before agreeing to postpone Brexit until Halloween. Labour, which seeks to retain close economic ties with the EU after Brexit, accuses the government of failing to offer concrete changes to its Brexit blueprint. Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's Brexit coordinator, tweeted that Britain's choices were "revoke, a public vote or a sensible cross-party deal."

Source: Otago Daily Times April 11, 2019 23:03 UTC