Could Boris Johnson Delay Brexit Again? This Time, It’s Harder
- Prime minister has faced calls to extend the transition period
- But that would need the U.K. to ask and all of the EU to agree
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Boris Johnson is facing calls to delay Britain’s final parting from the European Union as his government grapples with a mutant strain of coronavirus while the Brexit negotiations enter their final hours.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Tobias Ellwood, one of Johnson’s own members of parliament, all said the prime minister should extend the transition period -- which keeps Britain in the bloc’s single market and bound by the EU’s rules until Dec. 31. That would allow talks to continue beyond the year-end.