UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called the deadline for Britain's exiting the European Union as "completely unnecessary," telling Theresa May that the "whole country" would rather wait a bit longer if such a delay would result in a better deal. Corbyn called on the Prime Minister to drop the "unnecessary exit date deadline of the 29th March 2019" from the text of the EU Withdrawal Bill. To which May responded by saying "We're leaving the European Union on that date.