Brexit news: Theresa May tells MPs to ‘get on with it’ as she turns up pressure on parliament to force through deal
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Your support makes all the difference.Theresa May has risked the anger of MPs after she blamed them for forcing her to ask the EU for a "short delay" to Brexit.
In a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk, the prime minister asked for a three-month extension to Article 50 negotiation process, pushing the scheduled date to leave the EU from 29 March to 30 June.
However Mr Tusk put his foot down, saying he would grant the delay but only if MPs backed Ms May's Brexit deal.
Some hours later Ms May used a televised address to accuse the Commons of having tried everything to avoid making a decision on whether it wanted to leave the block with a deal, crash out without one or not leave at all.
From Downing Street she told voters she was "on your side", adding that she believed "You're tired of the infighting, you're tired of the political games and the arcane procedural rows, tired of MPs talking about nothing else but Brexit when you have real concerns about our children's schools, our National Health Service, knife crime."
"You want this stage of the Brexit process to be over and done with. I agree," she said.
In response the PM was accused of being "toxic" and even of risking her colleagues' safety.
It meant that Ms May must now find a way of putting her deal before parliament for the third time, with no clear evidence that MPs will back it after twice voting it down by crushing margins.
If the deal fails again there is a significant chance she could resign, having told MPs earlier in the day she could not be the leader to impose a lengthy delay to Brexit.
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SNP's Ian Blackford says it is 'downright reckless' to pursue a short extension - quoting David Lidington, her de facto deputy.
May says she has already answered this question to Jeremy Corbyn. MPs did not vote for her deal and must face the consequences.
Blackford says she is acting in her own self interest. If Westminster fails, Scotland will act, he says.
The PM says it is a huge responsibility to be PM but the UK voted to leave the EU.
Brexiteer Peter Bone says May has committed to leaving on March 29 more than 100 times and she will be betraying the people if she delays Brexit.
He tells her 'history will judge you'.
May says she wants the deal to be passed and the delay won't go beyond June 30.
Labour's Lloyd Russell-Moyle asks May to condemn Commons leader Andrea Leadsom, who said it was for parents to decide if their children were 'exposed' to LGBTQ education in schools.
May says she will write to him with the guidance but the government takes this very seriously.
We've done a story on the row:
Breaking - Theresa May has formally requested that the EU delay Brexit until the end of June.
Labour's Seema Malhotra complains that a Tory MP was apparently telling Labour MPs that they would "chloroform you and drag you through the lobbies". Will May remove the whip?
The PM says all MPs need to watch the type of language they use.
Catherine West, another Labour MP, asks the PM to support young people marching for a Final Say referendum at the weekend - organised by The Independent and the People's Vote.
Tory grandee Ken Clarke asks if she will allow indicative votes - as a short delay is useless without a plan for the way forward.
May says the House of Commons has had multiple opportunities to vote on these ideas such as a customs union and a second referendum and has rejected them.
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband says the PM is the block to reaching an agreement on Brexit and urges her to agree to indicative votes to allow the Commons to work out what it wants.
May repeats her point that parliament has had many chances to vote on different options and it has rejected them all.
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