{"id":17813,"date":"2019-04-03T08:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17813"},"modified":"2019-04-03T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:36:16","slug":"british-pm-says-further-extension-to-article-50-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17813","title":{"rendered":"British PM says further extension to Article 50 needed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH LIVE: PM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theresa_may?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Theresa_May<\/a> makes a statement on Brexit next steps at Downing Street <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zlZga6keb0\">https:\/\/t.co\/zlZga6keb0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/10DowningStreet\/status\/1113125319265751040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON, April 3 (NNN- Xinhua) &#8212; British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Tuesday night that Britain needs a further extension of Article 50, one that is &#8220;as short as possible&#8221; in order to ensure Britain to leave the European Union with a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also said she wants to sit down with the leader of the main opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, to see if they can come up with a plan to break what she described as a logjam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May said she hopes the British Parliament will still agree on a deal with Brussels by May 22, adding that leaving the EU with a deal remains the best solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said if she and Corbyn cannot agree on a unified approach, a series of options for the future relationship would be put to the House of Commons in a series of votes. May said the government would abide by the decision of the Commons, but only if Labour did so too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is a decisive moment in the story of these islands and it requires national unity to deliver the national interests,&#8221; said May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement followed a seven-hour long marathon meeting of senior ministers at a Downing Street Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the day political commentators had been speculating on what was being discussed by May and her team of government ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cabinet members themselves are deeply split over Brexit and how it should be resolved is a great reflection of a deep divide over the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, April 3 (NNN- Xinhua) &#8212; British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Tuesday night that Britain needs a further extension of Article 50, one that is &#8220;as short as possible&#8221; in order to ensure Britain to leave the European Union with a deal. She also said she wants to sit down with the leader of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":15715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}