Not now, Theresa: Postponing Britain’s EU goodbye

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🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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With just eight days to go before Brexit, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May wants to extend the leaving date. As an EU summit gathers, Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, insists she needs to get her twice-rejected deal through Parliament first. Also, are stronger strains of cannabis causing psychosis among users? And why Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump should have eaten “family-style” to help pull off a nuclear deal.

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0:00.0	You could invest just to grow your wealth.
0:02.0	Or you could invest in renewable energy.
0:05.0	You could invest purely to build up your assets.
0:07.0	Or you could invest in cleaner water.
0:10.0	You could invest to feel more comfortably off in the future.
0:13.0	Or you could invest in life-saving research.
0:16.0	Or you could invest in your own interest.
0:20.0	And in the interest of the wider world and the same time.
0:24.0	The Bayley Gifford Positive Change Fund.
0:27.0	Reveal the future.
0:29.0	Capital at risk.
1:00.0	Country ...
1:06.0	Family style platters may be all the rage in restaurants.
1:09.0	But as you wonder if it's okay to spear that last shrimp.
1:12.0	Might sharing from a single dish makes us all better at negotiating a truce.
1:16.0	On more important matters.
1:30.0	It's just over a thousand days since the result of the Brexit referendum.
1:36.0	As it stands the time left to decide how the United Kingdom will leave the EU
1:41.0	might be better counted in hours.
1:43.0	Under current law that separation from the EU with or without an agreement
1:48.0	on the actual terms of withdrawal will take place on the 29th of March next Friday.
1:55.0	Today the Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Brussels to ask European leaders
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