The PM presented choices to the Cabinet for the letter she is expected to write to the EU’s President Donald Tusk requesting a Brexit delay – without nailing down precisely what she will do.
That said, her ministers think she will request a delay until 30 June, predicated on her somehow getting her deal ratified by MPs – with an option of an extension to the end of 2020 in the event she ever concedes her own Brexit plan is definitely an ex-parrot (or dead, for the few of you too young to remember Monty Python).
May’s hope is that if this delay schedule is agreed as a legally binding text then it would have the effect of amending her deal – such that the Speaker could not then block her holding the meaningful vote for a third time.
We’ll see if Speaker Bercow feels that way inclined.
The bigger problem, as I mentioned this
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