英国议会支持延迟脱欧 需欧盟27国一致同意

The U. K. Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to delay Brexit beyond the country's planned exit date of March 29. The ayes to the right - 412; the noes of the left - 202. So the ayes have it. The ayes have it.

For more on how this played out and what's next in this, the biggest challenge the U. K. has faced in decades, we turn to NPR's Frank Langfitt. And Frank, you were in Parliament tonight.

After two years of negotiations to leave the EU, what ultimately drove this decision to delay? Well, you know, Audie, they didn't have any other choice. It had already been voted down.

The - Prime Minister May's Brexit deal had been voted down twice before. Yesterday, they voted against leaving with no deal because of the economic damage that would do to this country.

And frankly, it was time to punt. And what they're going to do - she's going to do is ask the European Union to grant the U. K. a delay in leaving.

I understand that Prime Minister Theresa May has lost her voice physically so she didn't have much. . . Yes. . . . To say afterwards. No, she didn't speak at all.

But she wants to bring her Brexit deal back to Parliament - right? - even though she lost previous votes by such huge margins.

So like. . . She does. . . How does she think she's going to do that? Well, this is the question that most people are asking right now

'cause usually people after, you know, two big defeat like this, they would quit. And since she couldn't speak, what she did say in her motion today is - to the Parliament -

if you pass it, I'll go to the EU next week. And I'll ask for a short delay to maybe June - well, to June 30. If not, though, it could be a much longer delay.