European Union to Consider Brexit Extension as MPs Mull Polls

LONDON/BRUSSELS: European Union (EU) Ambassadors were set to meet on Friday to discuss what length of Brexit extension to offer the UK, as British MPs consider Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s call for an early election. Most EU states were understood to favour a three-month delay, with an option to end earlier if a deal is ratified sooner than this by the UK Parliament, the BBC reported.

But France has argued for a shorter extension to the October 31 deadline. The EU’s decision on what length of extension to offer, which will be discussed in a closed-door meeting in Brussels on Friday morning, comes after Johnson said that he would give MPs more time to debate his Brexit deal if they backed a December 12 poll.

The UK government has also said that it has planned to bring forward a House of Commons vote on an early general election on October 28 if the EU offers a delay until January 2010, as it was widely expected. (IANS)

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