May formally asks that Brexit be pushed back to 30 June - but EU warns of 'serious risks'

An internal briefing memo from the European Commission said this 30 June departure date would bring 'serious legal and political risks'

Image: House of Commons/PA Images Image: House of Commons/PA Images THE UK PRIME Minister has confirmed that she has sought to delay Brexit, and said the House of Commons had “indulged itself on Europe for too long” as she seeks to finally secure the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

The Commission’s memo has urged instead that EU leaders to choose between a short delay to 23 May or a longer one to “at least until the end of 2019″. The idea that three years after voting to leave the EU, we’d be asked to elect new MEPs would fail to deliver on the referendum result. In her letter to Tusk, May said that it wouldn’t be in the interests of the UK or the EU to hold European Parliament elections.

Speaking in the House of Commons today, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Theresa May of having “no plan” and of plunging the UK into a “full-scale national crisis”.

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