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This week, a six-hour debate between European leaders concluded Theresa May's extension to Article 50.
Britain will remain a member state of the EU until October 31, with the possibility of leaving earlier if the prime minister can get the support of the House of Commons for its agreement on Brexit.
Here are some key dates in the political calendar.
April 12
Parliament is suspended. Ministers David Lidington and Michael Gove are in talks with John McDonnell of Labor to try to reach a compromise on the May agreement. If the parties can not hear, the government hopes to at least decide on an indicative voting process or the way forward for the draft withdrawal agreement so to try to reach a parliamentary consensus.
April 15
The United Kingdom will have to publish notices concerning the European elections. The prime minister said that she was determined not to hold.
April 23
The deputies return to Parliament after the Easter holidays. This is the week in which a new parliamentary process could begin to try to reach a consensus – either by new indicative votes or by the government introducing the bill, which members could amend, in order to add a confirmation referendum or soft Brexit options such as Customs Union.
April 25
Deadline for nominating candidates to the European Parliament and lists of candidates.
May 2
Local elections are held in England and Northern Ireland. The conservative party has said it expects mediocre results. The Liberal Democrats should launch their competition to replace Vince Cable as leader after the election.
May 9
EU leaders will hold a summit on the future of Europe in Sibiu, Romania – an event that was supposed to explain the future of the bloc after Brexit. May agreed not to attend.
Mid-May
According to Alan Renwick, deputy director of the Constitutional Unit of University College London, legislation regarding the approximate length of any second referendum should begin to pbad in Parliament.
The United Kingdom must hold European elections on May 23 if the House of Commons has not yet approved the May agreement. Photography: Olivier Hoslet / EPA
May 22
The last day that MEPs could make a withdrawal agreement and avoid holding elections to the European Parliament.
May 23
Elections to the European Parliament take place throughout the UK and the rest of the EU. Any election campaign is likely to be dominated in the UK by smaller protest parties, including Nigel Farage's party at Brexit and Ukip, as well as by Change UK.
May 26
The results are announced from 22h, conservatives expect mbadive losses. Among the limited number of polls conducted so far, the Labor Party is currently ahead, with likely large voting shares for the smaller parties.
May 27
Mai would probably need to leave this week for a new chef to be in place before the summer holidays. However, this could technically take place later, as it would only take members 15 days to vote on the leadership contestants.
May 30 – June 11
The House of Commons would probably spend a short break at Pentecost, which would be canceled if the Prime Minister was still trying to reach an agreement on Brexit, in order to prevent new members from being forced to sit in the European Parliament.
June 20-21
European leaders will badess the progress made by Britain in recent months at a European Council summit.
June 28-29
May, with European and world leaders, must attend a G20 summit in Osaka. When the Prime Minister promised the Conservative MPs to step down, she had planned this to be her last overseas summit.
June 30th
The date after which May said that she would not accept that the UK remains in the EU, and the day before, MEPs must take place in the European Parliament.
Nigel Farage in the European Parliament. New MPs will take their seats for the first time on July 1st. Photography: Patrick Seeger / EPA
July 2nd
New MEPs sit in the inaugural session of the new European Parliament.
July 25
The approximate date on which the Commons should get up for the summer vacation and the date on which the party would ideally be a new Conservative leader to install if a contest were held.
Mid August
Approximate time period during which the Prime Minister would need to call a general election before the expiry of the extension of section 50 – in order to meet the requirements of the Term Parliaments Act, 2011, as well as of the calendar set in the electoral registration and the law on the administration of 2013, which requires 25 working days for an election campaign.
August 25-27
The prime minister is due to attend the G7 summit in Biarritz, France.
September 5-12
This is the date on which the Commons is likely to return from the summer break, with the exception of any early recall of deputies to deal with the Brexit crises.
September 22 – October 2
Labor and Conservative Party conferences are held for consecutive weeks.
October 8
The date on which the deputies would return to Parliament, 18 working days before the planned date for the exit of the UK from the EU.
The final practical date at which the United Kingdom could hold a general election would be 10 October. Photo: Xinhua / Barcroft Images
October 10
Last convenient voting date at which a prime minister could hold a general election or a second referendum – the last Thursday before the next European Council.
The Electoral Commission suggests that it would take 10 weeks to hold a poll, as stated in the 2000 law on political parties, elections and referendums, and that an election campaign of at least four weeks would be organized.
In practice, a change in policy or government late in the timetable would probably require a further extension if a radical change in direction is expected.
October 17-18
EU leaders meet on the occasion of the last summit of the European Council before the expiry of the extension planned by the United Kingdom.
October 31
The extension of Article 50 six months will expire.
December 12
Next time Conservative MPs will be able to hold a confidence vote in May, if she remains in command.
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