Closing summary –
That’s all from us this evening. Thanks for reading and commenting. Here’s a summary of the day’s events:
Closing summary –
That’s all from us this evening. Thanks for reading and commenting. Here’s a summary of the day’s events:
Lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time on Friday, sounding its probable death knell and leaving Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in turmoil on the very day it was supposed to quit the bloc.
European leaders maneuvered to stop a chaotic no-deal Brexit happening next week, handing the U.K. an extra two weeks. The cliff-edge that investors were dreading has been postponed — but a new cliff-edge loom on April 12 when the U.K. will have to decide on the way forward.
European Union leaders staved off the threat of the U.K. crashing out of the bloc without a deal next Friday by giving Theresa May an extra two weeks to work out what to do.