THERESA May will meet the German Chancellor and French President tomorrow, as she struggles to find a credible Brexit plan she can present to EU leaders.
The Prime Minister will fly to Berlin to meet Angela Merkel on the eve of an EU summit in Brussels which will consider her request for a second extension to Article 50.
Mrs May is then expected to meet President Macron in Paris to plead her case.
Both leaders are seen as critical to securing any kind of extension, with Mrs Merkel reportedly in favour, but President Macron playing hardball and talking up a no-deal.
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With the UK due to crash out of Europe on Friday unless Mrs May secures an extension to the withdrawal process, she has asked the EU for a delay until June 30.
The EU wants to know if there is a clear and credible plan to justify another delay, and are almost certain to reject June 30 when they meet on Wednesday, having already rejected it when Mrs May sought he first extension last month.
There are suggestions Mrs May will argue her cross-party talks with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn are a sufficient change from the previous position to merit an extension.
The talks are due to resume today, but neither side has yet offered a significant compromise
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Many in the EU, including EU Council President Donald Tusk, believe another short extension does not give the UK enough time to come to a stable solution.
Mr Tusk has proposed a 12-month ‘flextension’ which would push back the date of no-deal to spring 2020, but which would end much sooner if there was a breakthrough at Westminster.
Mrs May has said she personally could not abide an extension beyond June 30, as the UK would be bound to take part in the European elections on May 23.
Many of her MPs and ministers are also vehemently opposed.
Meanwhile, many of Mr Corbyn’s MPs would demand a second referendum as the price for taking the political risk of endorsing a “Tory Brexit”.
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