{"id":87328,"date":"2019-04-05T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/05\/brexit-may-needs-plan-with-credible-political-backing-to-justify-article-50-extension-says-paris-live-news\/"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T13:53:13","slug":"brexit-may-needs-plan-with-credible-political-backing-to-justify-article-50-extension-says-paris-live-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=87328","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: May needs plan with &#039;credible political backing&#039; to justify article 50 extension, says Paris &#8211; live news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happen, including reaction to May\u2019s letter to Tusk asking for an article 50 extension until 30 JuneMay\u2019s letter to Tusk &#8211; Summary and analysis 2.52pm BST France has doubled down on its opposition to Britain being granted any further Brexit extension without a concrete plan that has clear support in the Commons, warning that without one Britain must be deemed to have chosen to leave the EU without a deal.\u201cThe European council took a clear decision on 21 March,\u201d France\u2019s new secretary of state for European affairs, Am\u00e9lie de Montchalin, said in a statement. \u201cAnother extension requires that the UK puts forward a plan with clear and credible political backing.\u201d 2.18pm BST Nick Brown, the Labour chief whip, went into the Cabinet Office earlier for an update on the government\/Labour Brexit negotiations.But he was not very forthcoming. This is from the BBC\u2019s Tom Barton.Labour Chief Whip Nick Brown to @callummay:\u201cWe\u2019ve received something from the govt we\u2019re looking at now\u201dQ: \u201cWhat sort of thing?\u201dA: \u201cA piece of paper\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/blog\/live\/2019\/apr\/05\/brexit-latest-news-developments-live-theresa-may-writes-to-eu-requesting-another-article-50-extension-but-only-until-30-june-live-news\" target=\"_blank\">Brexit: May needs plan with &#039;credible political backing&#039; to justify article 50 extension, says Paris &#8211; live news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happen, including reaction to May\u2019s letter to Tusk asking for an article 50 extension until 30 JuneMay\u2019s letter to Tusk &#8211; Summary and analysis 2.52pm BST France has doubled down on its opposition to Britain being granted any further Brexit extension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}