European Council

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:40 pm on 25 March 2019.

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Photo of Theresa May Theresa May The Prime Minister, Leader of the Conservative Party 3:40, 25 March 2019

I want to be able to deliver Brexit, and to do it within the extension we have been given to 22 May. Any further extension would require us to stand in European parliamentary elections. As I said earlier, I think people would ask what on earth we were doing if, having voted nearly three years ago to leave the European Union, they were then asked to elect Members to the European Parliament. I think they would say that we were failing to deliver on their vote, and I believe we have a duty to do that.