Opposition 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". May went to Brussels Wednesday seeking to postpone Brexit after UK lawmakers rejected — three times — the divorce deal she had struck with the EU. 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. British businesses expressed relief at the Brexit delay. 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: News 24 April 12, 2019 07:29 UTC