ITV's Peston writes: Time to prevaricate on......>

UK: ITV's Peston writes:

Time to prevaricate on Brexit is almost exhausted - with an emergency EU summit

having been convened for Wednesday next week to decide if the UK will leave

without a negotiated settlement or whether Brexit day will be delayed again, but

this time by many months. Her ministers tell me it is now a stark choice

between:

- a so-called confirmatory referendum

- seeing her Brexit deal ratified by MPs subject to further ratification in a

people's vote

- leaving without a deal on 12 April.

Those are the only available choices given that none of them want a general

election. Whichever route she takes will outrage and alienate a third of her

cabinet and a third of her MPs, at a conservative estimate. If she chooses

either no deal or referendum, she chooses resignations either of Brexiter ultras

or "soft" Tories, she chooses the future composition and direction of her party

(one-nation or UKIPy) and the destiny of the UK.