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JEREMY CORBYN and Theresa May will be in Brussels tomorrow for separate talks with EU chiefs after the Prime Minister’s plea to postpone Brexit to the end of June met a cool reception.
During Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) today, Ms May told MPs that she had written to EU officials to request that the date of Britain’s departure be put back from next Friday to June 30.
European Council president Donald Tusk responded by saying that a short extension of Britain’s membership would be “conditional” on Westminster MPs voting for her twice-rejected Brexit deal in the coming week.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
