{"id":3869,"date":"2019-04-11T04:31:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T08:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kut.ofp.mybluehost.me\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2019-04-12T04:40:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T08:40:34","slug":"uk-gets-a-six-month-extension-to-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/uk-gets-a-six-month-extension-to-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"UK gets a six-month extension to Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">European Union leaders have granted the UK a six-month extension to Brexit, after late-night talks in Brussels.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The new deadline &#8211; 31 October &#8211; averts the prospect of the UK having to leave the EU without a deal on Friday, as MPs are still deadlocked over a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> European Council President Donald Tusk said his &#8220;message to British friends&#8221; was &#8220;please do not waste this time&#8221;.<br> Theresa May, who had wanted a shorter delay, said the UK would still aim to leave the EU as soon as possible.<br> The UK must now hold European elections in May, or leave on 1 June without a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The prime minister will later make a statement on the Brussels summit to the House of Commons, while talks with the Labour Party, aimed at reaching consensus on how to handle <a href=\"http:\/\/kut.ofp.mybluehost.me\/eu-blacklist-revised\/\">Brexit<\/a>, are set to continue.<br> Mrs May tweeted: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The choices we now face are stark and the timetable is clear. <br><br>So we must now press on at pace with our efforts to reach a consensus on a deal that is in the national interest. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0LUYyP7be0\">pic.twitter.com\/0LUYyP7be0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Theresa May (@theresa_may) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theresa_may\/status\/1116257297930629120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  So far, MPs have rejected the withdrawal agreement Mrs May reached with other European leaders last year and they have voted against leaving the EU without a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The EU has ruled out any renegotiation of the withdrawal agreement.<br> Before the summit, Mrs May had told leaders she wanted to move the UK&#8217;s exit date from this Friday to 30 June, with the option of leaving earlier if Parliament ratified her agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union leaders have granted the UK a six-month extension to Brexit, after late-night talks in Brussels. The new deadline &#8211; 31 October &#8211; averts the prospect of the UK having to leave the EU without a deal on Friday, as MPs are still deadlocked over a deal. European Council ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[141,131,142,143],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-brexit","tag-eu","tag-theresa-may","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}