Theresa May asks the EU for a short delay to Brexit
|(CNN)British Prime Minister Theresa May has formally requested a delay to the country’s departure from the European Union, on another day of drama and confusion over her government’s Brexit plan.
After promising on scores of occasions that Brexit would take place on March 29, May finally bowed to the inevitable and asked the EU to extend the divorce process.
May told the House of Commons she had written to European Council President Donald Tusk, adding that she was “not prepared to delay Brexit any further” than June 30.