Theresa May has written to the EU for a further extension until 30 June.
While no withdrawal deal has yet to be approved by MPs, The UK is currently due to leave the EU on April 12th.
Prime Minister Theresa May proposed, If UK MPs come to terms on withdrawing on time, the UK should be able to leave before 23rd May when the European Parliamentary election is set to hold.
But in case they do not reach a consensus, Mrs May said the UK would prepare to field candidates in the coming elections.
Requesting the extension in preparation of a summit of EU leaders next Wednesday, Mrs May has written to European Council President Donald Tusk.
She asked for an extension to June 30 at the last summit, which happened not long before 29 March – the date the UK was set to have left the EU.
But she was, however, offered a short delay to 12 April – the date that the UK must say whether or not it intends to be part of the European Parliamentary elections – or up until May 22nd if UK MPs had agreed to the withdrawal deal negotiated with the EU. They voted it down for a third time just last week.
“Impasse cannot be allowed to continue, as it was creating uncertainty and doing damage to faith in politics in the UK.” Mrs May said in her letter.
Mrs May also said that MPs would be requested to vote on a series of options that the government “stands ready to abide by,” if “a single unified approach in the UK parliament” could not be established in talks with the Labour Party.
She wrote that the UK suggested an extension to the Brexit process until 30 June and “accepts the views of the European Council and would be under a legal obligation to hold the elections if the UK were still a member state of the EU on 23rd May 2019”.