Article 50: will it be extended or revoked?

UK will leave the EU on 31 October if the process can’t be halted

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A pro-Brexit march calling on the governent to invoke Article 50 in 2016
(Image credit: Justin Tallis/FP/Getty Images)

Boris Johnson is searching for a way around a new law designed to prevent him from taking Britain out of the EU without a deal on 31 October.

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