United Kingdom – the UK and EU have agreed upon a variable extension to Article 50 to delay Brexit, which was due to happen on 29 March.
Britain Prime Minister Theresa May has twice failed to get her Brexit deal through the country’s parliament, but MPs are expected to be given another chance to consider and approve it. If they do, United Kingdom will withdraw from the European Union on 22 May.
If MPs do not approve, Brexit will face another delay – but short – until 12 April for parliament to consider alternative options. Any further delay beyond it would need to take part in the European elections in May, 2019.
It’s expected that MPs will vote on a “statutory instrument” to change the date of Brexit – set in UK law in the Withdrawal Act – so it is no longer 29 March. That could happen before MPs vote again on Theresa May’s deal, or after, BBC wrote.
It comes after an exclusive survey which found 53 percent of voters would support postponing Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, opening the door to a second referendum. While 33 percent would advocate membership despite a possible economic catastrophe, and the remaining 14 percent did not comment.
According to The Independent, nearly half of Britain population calling for a re-consideration on Brexit, as about 700,000 people demonstrated last year opposing the Britain withdrawal from the European Union.
Possible Threat to the Kingdom
Early March, a number of Brexiteer MPs have said any delay to Brexit would append a precedent amount of harm to public trust in Britain’s politics, citing the delay “a political calamity”.
“Extended uncertainty” would be a “political calamity”, said Tory MP Steve Backer and the Democratic Unionist Party’s Nigel Dodds.
Baker, who is deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit Tory European Research Group (ERG), and Dodds wrote that, for some, any delay would mean “democracy would be effectively dead”.
They said that such an outcome would be “a costly delay for businesses which have prepared to exit on 29 March”, as BBC News quoted.
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The idea on Britain’s withdrawal from the EU took place in June 2016, which the government has decided to withdraw membership form the European Union on March 29, 2019. It is now May 22.
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