Mrs May activated Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union on 29 March 2017. The article stated that Britain was therefore expected to leave the EU with or without a deal two years later, on March 29 2019.
However, Westminster requested an extension to the original deadline, because Mrs May had failed on three separate occasions to get her Chequers deal through Parliament.
Once enacted, Article 50 can only be extended by a unanimous decision between the European council and the withdrawing nation. Ever since Mrs May invoked the legal mechanism, Government has been persistently pressed to an EU-imposed deadline in order to deliver a Brexit deal.
Boris Johnson managed to negotiate a revised withdrawal deal with the EU which addressed the contentious backstop before the summit. However, Parliament did not agree to his new bill until all the relevant legislation to prevent a no-deal had been passed. Therefore he was forced by the Benn Act to request an extension from the trading bloc.
The European leaders are still considering what length the extension should be and what conditions may be attached....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...
