Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts his last-minute Brexit deal to a vote in an extraordinary sitting of the British parliament on Saturday, a day of reckoning that could decide the course of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union.
President Emmanuel Macron has invited new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to see him in France “in the next few weeks”.
The lower house of the British parliament approved legislation, seeking to instruct the government of Prime Minister Theresa May to request the European Union the extension of the Brexit deadline to prevent a potentially disorderly departure on April 12 without a deal, Officials said.
The European Union’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said that a no-deal Brexit was becoming more likely by the day after British lawmakers rejected alternative options.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May promised to step down if MPs of her Conservative Party agreed to back her twice-defeated Brexit bill.
In an aggressive speech outside Downing Street, May tore into EU officials and said that Britain would not allow the “bureaucrats of Brussels run over us” and urged voters to “give me your backing to fight for Britain.”
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