Watch Live: EU's Tusk/Junker and PM May joint Presser underway: It's all Brexit, Brexit, Brexit

It's just after 0200AM in Brussels, and EU's Tusk / Junker are speaking in a Live Presser following the EU agreeing to an extension of Article 50 until 31st Oct - A Haloween Brexit (a flexible Brexit date to offer the potential for Withdrawl Agreement to pass).

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Key comments so far:

Tusk:

The course of action UK's hands.
UK will have the ability to cancel Article 50 altogether.
Message to British friends - as flexible as I expected and shorter than I expected
Its enough to find best possible solution.
Please don't waste this time.

Junker:

Should be cooperation between all member states.
Dont want withdrawal called into question.
Must respect European law.
I regret we only talk about Brexit.- The European press is just Brexit, Brexit, Brexit.
Insufficiently focused on other matter other than Brexit.
Pleased we have reached an agreement, standing united.
In Oct we will see what happens.
Commission is happy with this outcome.
He says, although the UK will remain a member, sometimes the EU27 will meet as 27.
He says there is precedent for this. He says he originally proposed that the Eurogroup of countries should meet on their own. At the time there was opposition to this, but it made sense.
He says there will probably be a European election in the UK.

Key notes:

Breaking / Brexit update: Tusk said EU agree on extension - 31st Oct

This buys the UK's PM May time, but can May pull this off? There is plenty of scepticism considering how poorly talks are going between PM May's Conservative Brexit Cabinet and Jeremy Corbyn's party.

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