Theresa May asks EU for Brexit delay with cabinet in deadlock over 'crisis'

Theresa May ‘will be writing to Donald Tusk in relation to an extension’, her spokesman said. Photograph: POOL New/ReutersTheresa May will be forced to write to EU leaders on Wednesday and beg them to delay Brexit, with her cabinet deadlocked over the best way out of what Downing Street now concedes is a “crisis”. The government had maintained until the last possible moment that Brexit could go ahead as planned on 29 March or after a brief “technical extension&rdquo