EU leaders were on Sunday considering a request by Prime Minister
Boris Johnson to delay Britain's departure from the bloc, which he was forced to make after MPs refused to back his
Brexit deal.
Johnson has pinned his premiership on getting
Britain out of the
European Union on October 31, more than three years after the 2016
referendum vote for Brexit.
The Conservative leader duly sent a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk late Saturday asking for the required three-month delay -- but did not sign it.