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Revealed: No. 10 leak shows how May could delay Brexit without Parliament’s approval

24 March 2019

1:28 AM

24 March 2019

1:28 AM

Ever since MPs first voted to trigger Article 50 everyone has been told that Britain, by law, will be leaving the EU on 29 March. And if that date was ever to change, then Parliament would have to vote for it to change. That’s the British constitution which can be summed up in eight words: ‘What the Queen-in-Parliament enacts is law.’

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