The Day Today

• PM May tells MPs Brexit will not be extended beyond 30th June, and delay was a source of “great personal regret”
• Sun: leaked paper reveals Labour HQ fear voters see them as the “Remain Party”

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• PM May will formally seek a “short delay” to Article 50 from EU this week
• ITV: pro-Brexit Cabinet ministers and Tory MPs demand PM May rule out any long extension and call her in front of 1922 cmmt
• HuffPost: DUP will not back any Brexit deal unless they know it will pass Parliament
• BBC: EU officials are hardening their support for a hard extension date of May 22
• Ireland Foreign Min Coveney: “people would be very foolish to assume that this is just some kind of political game and that an extension will automatic”

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• UK Speaker of the House tells Govt he will not allow a Meaningful Vote 3 unless there is “substantial changes” to it
• Sun: PM May is writing to EU Tusk to ask for an extension of 9 to 12 months
• Guardian: DUP officials think it is unlikely they will change to back PM May’s deal before the EU Council this week
• ECB De Guidos: Inflation and growth in the euro zone are continuing to slow this year but they are set to rebound
• Germany Chlr Merkel: “I believe or I hope –

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• PM May threatens that Brexit may not occur at all to get pro-Brexit MPs from her own party onside
• Chancellor Hammond: Brexit deal will not return to the Commons this week unless it has support from the DUP and Tory MPs
• Telegraph: Meaningful Vote III will not be brought to Parliament this week,

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• TERRORIST ATTACK IN NEW ZEALAND LEAVES UP TO 40 DEAD
• MPs agree for the UK to seek delay of Article 50 until at least 30 June
• PM May confirms she will bring back her Withdrawal Agreement before March 30 for the third time
• Telegraph: hardline Brexiteers and the DUP remain unconvinced that new legal advice would allow the UK to exit the backstop under the Vienna Convention
• Buzzfeed: a group of 20 pro-Brexit MPs plan to vote down the Govt if Labour brought a vote of confidence
• Four Labour Shadow ministers and 2 other junior positions resign their positions to vote in favour of a second referendum
• Times: EU officials are open to a longer extension on the condition of a second referendum
• EU Tusk: “I will appeal to the EU27 to be open to a long extension if the UK finds it necessary”

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