“As expected, European leaders concoct yet another stitch-up in Brussels" (Image: GETTY & YouTube/Oxford Union)
If Parliament approves Mrs May’s EU exit agreement Brexit will now take place on May 22. However if it doesn’t Britain will leave without a deal on April 12, unless the Government presents Brussels with a new offer. Mrs May had previously vowed the UK would exit the EU on March 29.
Since announcing the extension Mrs May has taken criticism from a number of prominent EU exit campaigners.
Conservative MP Daniel Hannan, a leading Brexit ideologue, attacked the Prime Minister on Twitter.
He commented: “Given the EU’s obvious dislike of no deal, we need to ask why Theresa May has spent the past two years as a desperate supplicant.”
Conservative MP Lucy Allen, who has twice voted against Mrs May’s deal and backs a no-deal exit, commented: “But why do we need an extension?”
Richard Tice, a businessman and co-chair of the ‘Leave Means Leave’ campaign, described the decision as
