Brexit: Macron wants tough conditions on Brexit delay - FT

The Financial Times has reported that the French President Emmanuel Macron is leading the charge to impose tough political conditions on the UK as the price for any Brexit delay.

• France’s President Emmanuel Macron is leading demands for Britain to sign up to tough political conditions as the price for any Brexit delay as EU leaders prepare to grant Theresa May more time to break the parliamentary impasse over the issue.
• Mr Macron, increasingly frustrated by the deadlock in Britain, wants guarantees that the UK will not use its continuing presence as a departing member of the EU to disrupt the bloc’s business, including its multiyear budget. Jean-Yves Le Drian, French foreign minister, spoke of his disquiet that Mrs May was seeking to delay Britain’s departure for the second time, having already pushed it back from March 29 to April 12: “We can’t live in a perpetual Brexit process,” he said.

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