EU agrees to delay Brexit by three months until Jan. 31. The decision was welcomed by politicians in the U.K. and the bloc—but not by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Britain got Brexit breathing space but no clarity on Monday when the European Union granted a three-month delay to the U.K.'s departure from the bloc, postponing it until Jan. 31.
Still, an election appears inevitable well before the next scheduled one in 2022 if Britain is to move on from the stasis caused by a prime minister who vowed to deliver Brexit"do or die" and a Parliament that has repeatedly thwarted him. He said that unless there was an election, the government would be"like Charlie Brown, endlessly running up to kick the ball only to have Parliament whisk it away."Yet further delay stretched ahead after the EU agreed to postpone Brexit until Jan. 31, acting to avert a chaotic U.K. departure just three days before Britain was due to become the first country ever to leave the 28-nation bloc.
In the end, the choice was not in his hands. The U.K. Parliament forced Johnson to ask for a delay to avoid a no-deal Brexit, which would hurt the economies of both Britain and the EU.
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