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'EU mulling two new Brexit delays as it accepts vote loss next week'
Sky’s Europe Correspondent Mark Stone bring us up to date with the latest intelligence on what’s going on behind those closed doors.
He says the meeting is “overrunning massively” and has been told by diplomats speaking to the leaders they are “half-way through discussing possibilities of extensions”.
May spoke to them for 75-90 minutes – the longest she has ever spoken to them in one of these forums, trying to convince them to accept the short Brexit delay until 30 June and make it conditional on MPs passing her deal next week.
What he has been told is that EU leaders have accepted her deal will not go through next week, shifting from their earlier resistance to talk about what would happen in such a scenario.
“The reaction to her statement last night in Downing Street has compounded the view that she won’t get the meaningful vote three passed, so they have now accepted that,” Mark Stone understands.
They are now discussing how to progress in a private conversation, without her.
He is told they are looking at delaying Brexit until early May - regardless of whether the deal passes next week.
If by early April the deal is still not passed and the UK accepts it will take part in the European Parliament elections, which are in May, then there can be a longer extension until the end of the year.
That effectively makes two new deadlines – early May and the end of the year.