"Yes. We are leaving the EU on March 29… [Theresa May] is prepared to take the UK out of the EU with no deal," a spokesman told reporters, adding that Downing Street was still working to get a deal.
The statement comes after May last Tuesday called off a vote in parliament on the terms of the exit from the union after it became clear that her hard-negotiated Brexit deal would be overwhelmingly rejected.
EU leaders, for its part, vowed to help May facilitate the ratification but said they would not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement. The summit ended without any breakthrough and May went home to face the parliament empty-handed.
A spokeswoman for the prime minister said earlier that the parliament would have a chance to vote on May’s Brexit plan well before January 21 but not until Christmas break. It will reconvene on January 7.
