Boris Johnson
Prime Minister“I’d rather be dead in a ditch”
Asked, after a speech at a police training college in West Yorkshire, about asking the EU to extend Brexit beyond 31 October. Source: The Guardian
What happened
On 19 October 2019, as the Benn Act required, the government sent the EU an unsigned letter asking to extend Brexit to 31 January 2020. EU leaders agreed on 28 October, and the UK left on that date.
Sources: The Guardian: the letters · The Guardian: key events