UK lawmakers prepping bid to delay Brexit - Reuters
|According to reporting by Reuters, British lawmakers are affirming British business leaders that they are actively preparing for a bid to extend Article 50, pushing out the final Brexit date until a better deal can be found after PM May's withdrawal agreement was soundly defeated in parliament today.
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Finance minister Philip Hammond, business minister Greg Clark and Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said that a “backbench motion is being prepared now to delay Article 50,” a British corporate executive who was on the call told Reuters on condition of anonymity, adding that business leaders asked ministers about no-deal.
“They are doing a good job to try to appear to know what happens now, but no one knows,” the source said. “We will have to wait to see what the consensus-building in parliament does.”
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