By Daniel Martin Policy Editor For The Daily Mail
Published: 22:15 BST, 16 April 2019 | Updated: 23:42 BST, 16 April 2019
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A senior EU negotiator said yesterday he believes Britain will waste its latest Brexit extension.
Guy Verhofstadt, European Parliament Brexit coordinator, said the UK will probably 'run down the clock' once again.
He criticised MPs' decision to go off on holiday as soon as the six-month extension had been agreed.
Mr Verhofstadt said delaying Brexit to the end of October risked prolonging the uncertainty of the process because it was 'too near for a substantial rethink and at the same time too far away to prompt any action'.
European Parliament Brexit chief Guy Verhofstadt has said UK MPs are wasting time
Andrew Bowie, Scottish Conservative Party politician postED a photo of his trip to the Caingorns during Easter recess
Lewisham Labour MP Ellie Reeves was also enjoying the British countryside, staying in a cosy-looking cottage in Wales (left) while Tory Rachel Maclean (right) swapped her Redditch seat in the West Midlands for the wild expanse of Blencathra in the lake District, accompanied by her dogs Herbie and Phoebe
In an address to the European Parliament, he said: 'My fear is that with this decision, the pressure to come to a cross-party agreement disappears.
'And that both parties, the Conservatives and Labour, will again do what they did for months – run down the clock.
'And the proof of this is that the first decision the House of Commons
