Theresa May seeks another Brexit extension to pursue deal with Labour
The British leader seeks talks with opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to break impasse
London — Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would ask the EU for a further delay to Brexit beyond April 12 to give her time to sit down with the opposition Labour Party in a bid to break the impasse over Britain’s departure. Nearly three years since the UK voted to leave the EU in a shock referendum result, British politics is in crisis and it is unclear how, when or if it will ever quit the European club it first joined in 1973. In a hastily arranged statement from her Downing Street office after spending more then seven hours chairing crisis cabinet meetings on how to plot a way out of the Brexit maze, May said she was seeking another short extension to Brexit. “We will need a further extension of Article 50, one that is as short as possible and which ends when we pass a deal,” May said. “We need to be clear what such an extension is for — to ensure we leave in a timely and orderly way. “I am offering to sit down with the leader of the opposition and to try to agree a ...
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