Brexit: Theresa May ‘focused’ on leaving on time, despite calls for delay

Theresa May says she remains “focused” on leaving the EU on 29 March, despite calls from her own party for a delay.

The PM said she had felt a “real determination” from EU leaders in recent days to find a “smooth and orderly way [to leave] with a deal”.

But Dutch PM Mark Rutte warned her the UK was “sleepwalking into a no-deal scenario” and needed to “wake up”.

Mrs May admitted there was “still more to do” before Parliament could vote on her final plan.

Some Conservative colleagues have suggested she should consider delaying Brexit to avoid leaving without a deal.

But at a press conference in Sharm-el-Sheikh, the prime minister was defiant about pushing forward with the scheduled date.

“A delay in this process doesn’t deliver a decision in Parliament [and] it doesn’t deliver a deal,” she said.

“What it does is precisely what the word delay says, it just delays the point in which we come to that decision.”