{"id":6712,"date":"2019-03-14T21:16:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2019-03-14T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:16:16","slug":"british-mps-vote-to-ask-for-brexit-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/2019\/03\/14\/british-mps-vote-to-ask-for-brexit-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"British MPs vote to ask for Brexit delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London, March 14: Britain&#8217;s parliament on Thursday voted to ask the European Union to delay Brexit until at least June and head off a potentially calamitous end to their 46-year partnership in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_4635.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6711\" width=\"768\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_4635.jpg 768w, https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_4635-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>MPs, however, also voted against a proposal to hold a second referendum during the delay, dealing a blow to the hopes of pro-EU campaigners.<\/p>\n<p>Britain is barrelling towards the March 29 Brexit deadline with no approved EU withdrawal agreement and a prime minister who appears to have lost control over her bickering cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Anxious businesses are pleading for action and US President Donald Trump waded in to pronounce himself &#8220;surprised to see how badly it has all gone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A sense of chaos filled the House of Commons this week as lawmakers held a series of votes on ideas about what they could do next.<\/p>\n<p>MPs have twice rejected the deal struck by Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s with the other 27 EU nations &#8212; in January and on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>They voted on Wednesday not to leave without an agreement but without any firm roadmap on the way forward three years after Brexit was launched in a bitterly divisive referendum.<\/p>\n<p>The plan they all finally agreed on &#8212; after turning down four other proposals &#8212; was submitted by May herself: to ask EU leaders to postpone Brexit. (AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, March 14: Britain&#8217;s parliament on Thursday voted to ask the European Union to delay Brexit until at least June and head off a potentially calamitous end to their 46-year partnership in two weeks. MPs, however, also voted against a proposal to hold a second referendum during the delay, dealing a blow to the hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,44,1,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6713,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}