Brexit: No10 won't rule out Theresa May quitting over long delay
After sending a formal request to EU Council President Donald Tusk ahead of a summit in Brussels on Thursday, Mrs May told MPs: "As Prime Minister, I am not prepared to delay Brexit any further than June 30."
Asked if that meant she would quit rather than accept a longer extension to Article 50, a Downing Street spokesman said: "You should infer from those words the strength of the prime minister's resolve.”
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Hide AdBut with some EU leaders believed to be against any extension, and Brussels opposed to granting a delay without a clear purpose, Mrs May’s letter has also raised renewed fears about the possibility of a no-deal Brexit, as early as the scheduled exit day at the end of next week.
Brussels has made clear that any extension of the Article 50 negotiation process beyond June would require the UK to take part in elections to the European Parliament in May - something which Mrs May said was in the interests neither of Britain or the EU.