Brexit

A pro EU protestor shouts through a megaphone at the Houses of Parliament in London, Wednesday, March 27, 2019. British lawmakers were preparing to vote Wednesday on alternatives for leaving the European Union as they seek to end an impasse following the overwhelming defeat of the deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Dark forces unleashed

The diary of a British Labour MP who voted Remain but holds a Leave-voting seat and wants to remain anonymous.

$A handout photograph taken and released by the UK Parliament on March 27, 2019 shows Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaking during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) question and answer session in the House of Commons in London. - Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday pledged to step down if MPs back her EU divorce deal, in a bid to break the Brexit deadlock in Britain's fractured parliament. Her dramatic gambit came just two hours before MPs started a flurry of votes seeking a last-minute alternative Brexit plan to replace her deal. (Photo by JESSICA TAYLOR / various sources / AFP) / EDITORS NOTE THE IMAGE HAS BEEN DIGITALLY ALTERED AT SOURCE TO OBSCURE VISIBLE DOCUMENTS - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO /JESSICA TAYLOR/ UK Parliament"$

Play for time, May told

Theresa May is being urged by cabinet ministers to stretch out the contest for her successor to give the new generation a chance.

Sam Coates and Francis Elliott

CommentaryThe Times

$A handout photograph taken and released by the UK Parliament on March 27, 2019 shows Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaking during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) question and answer session in the House of Commons in London. - Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday pledged to step down if MPs back her EU divorce deal, in a bid to break the Brexit deadlock in Britain's fractured parliament. Her dramatic gambit came just two hours before MPs started a flurry of votes seeking a last-minute alternative Brexit plan to replace her deal. (Photo by JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) / EDITORS NOTE THE IMAGE HAS BEEN DIGITALLY ALTERED AT SOURCE TO OBSCURE VISIBLE DOCUMENTS - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO /JESSICA TAYLOR/ UK Parliament"$

May’s mantra sealed her fate

Theresa May has been forced to go because she wouldn’t budge from her meaningless slogans.

Daniel Finkelstein

Brexit chaosThe World

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing street for the weekly Prime Minister Question (PMQ) session in the House of Commons in London on March 27, 2019. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)

MPs reject all options

MPs vote down all eight amendments as PM is forced to announce she’ll quit.

Jacquelin Magnay

The Times

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves from 10 Downing Street on March 26, 2019. - Britain's parliament began plotting a new Brexit strategy today after seizing the initiative in the floundering process from Prime Minister Theresa May's government in a historic vote. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)

Leavers swing behind May deal

Prime Minister Theresa May is preparing to bring her Brexit deal back after being told by Leavers she is within sight of victory.

Francis Elliott and Sam Coates

Brexit chaosThe World

A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May making a statement in the House of Commons in London on March 25, 2019 outlining the next steps that parliament will take in the Brexit process. - Prime Minister Theresa May admitted Monday she had still not secured the votes needed to get her Brexit deal through parliament, raising again the prospect that Britain could crash out of the European Union in two weeks' time. (Photo by Jessica TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO /JESSICA TAYLOR / UK Parliament"

May loses Brexit control

In the latest ignominy for Theresa May, MPs today dramatically seized control of Brexit, complicating the process further.

Jacquelin Magnay

Brexit chaosThe Times

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 23: Protesters take part in the Put It To The People March on Whitehall on March 23, 2019 in London, England. Thousands of protesters gathered in central London today to take part in the Put It To The People March. The march from Park Lane to Parliament Square was organised by the Peoples Vote campaign and is calling for a public vote on the Governments final Brexit deal. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

‘Erratic’ May faces cabinet coup

Senior MPs say embattled leader Theresa May must stand down, warning she has become toxic and her judgment is “haywire”.

Jacquelin Magnay and TIM SHIPMAN

Brexit chaosThe Times

POOL PHOTOS FAIRFAX and AAP- PM Malcolm Turnbull meeting British PM Theresa May, at 10 Downing street in London, England. Picture Kym Smith

May banished to table for one

For six hours she sat alone while a few feet away, behind closed doors, European leaders bickered over her country’s future.

Bruno Waterfield and Oliver Wright

The Times

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - MARCH 21: British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to the media at the end of the first of a two-day summit of European Union leaders on March 21, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. Leaders will discuss May's request for an extension of the deadline for the United Kingdom's departure from the EU, or Brexit. European Council President Donald Tusk said yesterday that he can see member states agreeing to a short extension beyond March 29, though he has coupled an extension to the British Parliament passing Theresa May's Brexit agreement first. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Brexit: two options for May

European leaders have given British MPs two options. Here is a quick guide to what they mean for Britain.

OLIVER WRIGHT, HENRY ZEFFMAN and FRANCIS ELLIOTT

The World

British Prime Minister Theresa May holds a press conference on March 22, 2019, at the end of the first day of an EU summit focused on Brexit, in Brussels. - European Union leaders meet in Brussels on March 21 and 22, for the last EU summit before Britain's scheduled exit of the union. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

EU looks to bypass May

The collective might of the EU has decided to take control and offered the Commons a way to circumvent Theresa May.

Jacquelin Magnay

Companies

Smiggle’s growth undercut by Brexit

The never-ending Brexit saga is weighing on Solomon Lew’s ambitious growth ambitions for stationery powerhouse Smiggle.

Eli Greenblat

Brexit chaosThe Times

Cracks show as ‘no-deal’ looms

Theresa May is not the only one dealing with internal drama over the long-running saga. The EU is getting in on the act as reality dawns.

Oliver Wright

Brexit chaosThe World

***BESTPIX*** BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - MARCH 21: British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for a two-day summit of European Union leaders on March 21, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. Leaders will discuss British Prime Minister Theresa May's request for an extension of the deadline for the United Kingdom's departure from the EU, or Brexit. European Council President Donald Tusk said yesterday that he can see member states agreeing to a short extension beyond March 29, though he has coupled an extension to the British Parliament passing Theresa May's Brexit agreement first. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

‘It’s the moment of decision’

EU leaders and Theresa May agree to delay Brexit for up to six week, alleviating pressure to get her deal passed next week.

Jacquelin Magnay

Brexit crisisThe Times

Cross channel ferries will bring supplies across to Britain.

UK moves on doomsday plans

British emergency committee Cobra, the “worst-case unit’’, is set to start implementing no-deal Brexit contingency measures.

Henry Zeffman

Brexit chaosThe World

EU: take May’s deal or no-deal

Theresa May rules out a Brexit delay past June 30; but the EU won’t approve any extension unless MPs pass her withdrawal bill.

Jacquelin Magnay

Brexit chaosThe World

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing street in London, Thursday, March 14, 2019. British lawmakers faced another tumultuous day Thursday, as Parliament prepared to vote on whether to request a delay to the country's scheduled departure from the European Union and Prime Minister Theresa May struggled to shore up her shattered authority. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

May: we’ll never be forgiven

Theresa May admits parliament has become a “laughing stock” over Brexit, as EU warns it won’t automatically grant a delay.

CommentThe Times

Catastrophe of May’s making

Don’t blame John Bercow for this latest crisis: Theresa May’s failure as leader is at fault, entrenching division, not unity.

Rachel Sylvester

Brexit chaosThe World

Crisis as Speaker bars new vote

Britain is in constitutional crisis as the Speaker of the House bars the PM from resubmitting her withdrawal deal for a third vote.

Jacquelin Magnay

The World

FILE - In this Tuesday March 12, 2019 file photo Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to lawmakers in parliament, London. Britain's love-hate relationship with the rest of Europe goes back decades, but the Brexit crisis gripping it today stems from dramatic January 2013 speech by Prime Minister David Cameron in which he promised an "in or out" referendum. Britain voted to leave, but negotiations between Britain and the EU have been slow and at times acrimonious, and the 585-page withdrawal agreement produced after two years of talks has been rejected twice by Britain's divided Parliament. (Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament via AP, File)

May’s third vote down to wire

Theresa May will recalculate the numbers right up until tomorrow morning’s third vote on the Brexit withdrawal bill.

Jacquelin Magnay

Economics

Anti-Brexit activists fly EU flags as fishing boats take part in a demonstration on the River Tyne in Newcastle, northeast England on March 15, 2019, against the terms of the current Brexit deal being offered by Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May. - People working in the fishing industry supported by the pro-Brexit Fishing for Leave organisation, launched a flotilla on Friday in protest against the prospect of Britain continuing to adhere to the EU's Common Fisheries Policy that sets quotas and fishing rights during the transition period after Britain has formally left the European Union. (Photo by Andy Buchanan / AFP)

May selling UK a pup

After promising to take Britain out of Europe on Brexit Day, it seems Prime Minister Theresa May will now delay.

TICKY FULLERTON

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