«Breaking News» Macron warns he could VETO the Prime Minister's Brexit delay plan if it is 'detrimental' to the EU

A request by Britain to postpone leaving the EU for three months is 'not guaranteed to be accepted,' Emmanuel Macron will tell Theresa May today. 

The notoriously anti-Brexit President of France will use a key summit in Brussels today to pile intense pressure on the Prime Minister just eight days from a possible No Deal departure.

Mrs May will use the European Council meeting to make a direct plea to leaders of the other 27 EU countries to accept the delay until June 30.

But Mr Macron has indicated that he may use France's veto to block an extension of the two-year-Brexit process - Article 50 – if this was 'detrimental to the interests of the EU.'

'It's a possibility,' an aide to Mr Macron said on Thursday morning. 'The extension is not guaranteed to be accepted.

It came hours after Mrs may used a live television address to lay blame for the delay to Brexit at the door of MPs, provoking a furious response.

It currently looks very unlikely she can get a deal through Parliament next week.

Emmanuel Macron and France have taken one of the hardest lines against Britain over Brexit in the past three years

Theresa May, pictured addressing the nation last night, will ask EU leaders in Brussels this afternoon for a Brexit delay until June amid disarray and fury in Westminster

'The concern is that Britain has no obvious plan to justify an extension. There's no sign of a coherent strategy, and the impact could be harmful to the EU.'

If Article 50 is not extended, then the UK will crash out of the EU next Friday, in all likelihood without a deal as MPs have already rejected Mrs May's exit plans twice.

Mr Macron's aide pointed to European parliament elections in May, which the UK would technically have to take part in if it was still in the EU.

Thus Britain would be 'participating in EU elections and decisions just a few weeks before its intended exit,' the aide said.

Any decision by the EU to accept Britain's extension of Article 50 must be unanimous, meaning the potential Macron veto could be devastating to Mrs May's plans.

For France, two criteria will count in a possible support for the British extension request: the likelihood that the British Parliament will end up ratifying the agreement, but also the impact of this extension on the European Union.

As the brinkmanship intensified on Wednesday, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said: 'A situation in which Mrs May would not be able to present sufficient guarantees to the European Council on the credibility of the [delayed exit] strategy would then lead to dismissing the extension request and preferring an exit without an agreement.'

A likely compromise for France accepting a relatively short delay for the London parliament to finally ratify Mrs May's Brexit deal is Britain not taking part in key decisions during its last months in the EU.

Raging MPs today branded Theresa May a 'f***ing disgrace' after she used her live TV speech to scold them for not backing her Brexit deal.  

Mrs May condemned the Commons for failing to back her EU withdrawal agreement and accused them of playing 'political games'.

The Downing Street address was meant to persuade Brexiteer Tories, Labour rebels and the DUP to back her deal when it comes back to the Commons next week, most likely on Tuesday.

But her defiant speech caused a great deal of upset among MPs who branded it 'toxic', 'contemptuous', 'incendiary and irresponsible' while another called it a 'f***ing disgrace'.

Tory Remainer Sam Gymiah hit out at his party leader and said: 'Resorting to the blame game, as the PM is doing, is a low blow' while Tory Brexiteer Henry Smith says that Britain must now opt for No Deal 

Potential Labour 'switcher' Lisa Nandy claimed last night that Mrs May had blown her chance to win her and other MPs over

Tory Remainer Sam Gyimah hit out at his party leader and said: 'Resorting to the blame game, as the PM is doing, is a low blow. Democracy loses when a Prime Minister who has set herself against the House of Commons then blames MPs for doing their job. It's Toxic. 

'She knows MPs are receiving hate mail. We're repeatedly being urged to hold their noses to the stench of this deal and vote for it. That cannot be the blueprint for our great country and I cannot support it'.

Potential 'switcher' Lisa Nandy claimed last night that Mrs May had blown her chance and said: 'There's absolutely no chance she is going to win over MPs in sufficient numbers after that statement. It was an attack on liberal democracy itself. I will not support a government that takes such a reckless approach'.

But Brexit Minister Kwasi Kwarteng said today he believes more MPs will back the Prime Minister's deal after her intervention and insisted she has a 'good shot at landing the deal and winning a vote next week'.

The Prime Minister will travel to Brussels today to ask for an extension until the end of June to try to get her plan through, arriving at around noon. 

She is rumoured to be addressing EU leaders at around 3pm.

Jeremy Hunt: There's no guarantee the PM can bring back her vote 

Jeremy Hunt, pictured leaving the Commons last night, suggested it is not guaranteed Mrs may will try to get her Brexit deal through parliament for a third time next week

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he does not know if Theresa May's Brexit deal will be brought back to Parliament next week, as he warned of 'extreme unpredictability' if the issue is not resolved.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'If we are in the same situation this time next week then only a very limited list of things could happen: Parliament could vote to revoke Article 50, which is cancelling the Brexit process - I think that's highly unlikely...

'There could be an EU emergency summit to offer us an extension and we don't know what the length will be and it could have some very onerous conditions - they could say, for example, 'We'll give you an extension if you have a second referendum'.

'Again, I think it's very unlikely Parliament would vote for that. And then we have no-deal as the legal default on Friday.

'So the choice that we have now is one of resolving this issue or extreme unpredictability.'

Mr Hunt said 'no prime minister in living memory has been tested' in the way that Mrs May has.

'Let's not forget the extraordinary pressure that she is personally under, and I think she does feel a sense of frustration,' he told Today.

'She is absolutely determined to deliver what people voted for and I think ... the Brexit process has sapped our national confidence and we need to remember now what we're capable of as a country.

'And we need to remember that the economy has actually not suffered in the way many people thought it would and we have a chance now to resolve this and move on, to close this chapter, move on to the next chapter.

'And we will be able to say, as one of the oldest parliamentary democracies in the world, that we were faced with a very difficult decision - a decision that most of the political establishment didn't want to go ahead - and we've delivered it because we are a country where we do what the people say.'

 

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