automatic extension until the twenty second of may that would be a technical extension because even if the house of commons approves they would need some time to implement that decision into the into u.k. law so that that's probably the simplest of the options now the fortunately it's not the most likely one the most likely one is that the house of commons will reject this deal as they have done twice before and then the extension gets shortened until the twelfth of april that doesn't mean that there will really be a brags that because the president of the european council was asked exactly that question he said everything is still on the table until that day so even a very long extension could be possible if and that's the big if the u.k. participates in the european elections in may also no great deal drugs it would be possible at that moment so to sum it up karl they have kicked the can down the road