{"id":399540,"date":"2019-03-14T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-british-parliament-allows-government-to-seek-brexit-delay\/"},"modified":"2019-03-14T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T22:16:00","slug":"presstv-british-parliament-allows-government-to-seek-brexit-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-british-parliament-allows-government-to-seek-brexit-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-British parliament allows government to seek Brexit delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Members of Parliament in Britain have allowed the government to seek a delay to its withdrawal from the European Union beyond the planned departure date of March 29.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in the House of Commons on Thursday voted 412 to 202 for a motion tabled by the government which is aimed at requesting a one-off delay to Brexit negotiation period for three more months.<\/p>\n<p>The motion by Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s government has reiterated that such a delay to Brexit, which is aimed at preparing legislation required for leaving the EU, would have a high chance of approval in an EU summit on March 21 if the Commons agree on a withdrawal deal a day before that.<\/p>\n<p>The motion stresses that if the Commons reject May\u2019s Brexit deal, the EU could reject the request for the extension of the Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, a mechanism Britain triggered following the June 2016 Brexit referendum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParliament agrees that if lawmakers approve a divorce deal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/03\/14\/591061\/UK-Brexit-debate-parliament-delay-vote\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Parliament in Britain have allowed the government to seek a delay to its withdrawal from the European Union beyond the planned departure date of March 29. Lawmakers in the House of Commons on Thursday voted 412 to 202 for a motion tabled by the government which is aimed at requesting a one-off delay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}