Delay to Brexit: What is the new timetable?
Friday 22 March 2019 10:01, UK
By Aubrey Allegretti, political reporter
Theresa May and EU leaders have agreed Brexit will no longer happen on 29 March.
Brussels accepted Britain's request after MPs passed a series of votes rejecting the divorce deal, then rejecting no-deal, then accepting the prime minister's suggestion of a delay.
Sky News unpicks the new timetable agreed at a late-night summit in the Belgian capital.
So when is Brexit happening now?
There are now two possible exit dates: 22 May and 12 April.
They revolve completely around whether Mrs May can get her Brexit deal through parliament next week.
If she does, the new Brexit date will be 22 May.
That gives just under two months for the UK and EU to rubber stamp the divorce deal and get all the technical arrangements in place for the separation to officially commence.
But passing the deal in that time will prove problematic for two reasons.
First, because Mrs May has already suffered the first and fourth biggest Commons defeats on it, and only a handful of Tory Brexiteers have publicly declared they have changed their minds.
Second, because Speaker John Bercow has warned he could ban the vote, by invoking a more than 400-year-old rule that bans MPs being forced to vote on the same issue repeatedly in a short space of time.
If Mrs May's deal does not pass before the end of next week, the new Brexit date will be 12 April.
This becomes the new deadline for Britain to decide how it wants to proceed.
It can either drop out of the EU with no deal, or it can "indicate a way forward" within the bloc - likely requesting a longer delay from the EU.
When asked at a news conference how long, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said with a smile: "Until the very end."
Brussels has chosen the date because it is the last point when Britain can decide if it is taking part in the European Parliament elections between 23-26 May.
Mrs May said in a speech that "I believe strongly that it would be wrong to ask people in the UK to participate in these elections three years after voting to leave the EU".