Rabu, 03 April 2019

Theresa May to hold Brexit crisis talks with Jeremy Corbyn: Live updates - CNN International

Theresa May has finally made a decision. And it's not one her hard-Brexit allies will like.

The Prime Minister has recognized what many have been saying for weeks -- that there's no majority for her deal in Parliament.

In offering talks with the opposition Labour Party -- and, crucially, offering to accept the result of any vote in Parliament for an alternative Brexit plan -- May has also recognized that she will never be able to persuade her supposed allies in the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, nor a hard core of Brexiteers in her own Conservative Party.

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May giving a statement inside 10 Downing Street in London.

May has picked a side, and in agreeing to a cross-party approach, it's the side of a "soft" Brexit -- one that envisages a closer relationship with the EU than she previously could countenance.

"This is a difficult time for everyone. Passions are running high on all sides of the argument. But we can and must find the compromises that will deliver what the British people voted for," May said.

That's a sign that she's about to rub out at least some of her infamous "red lines" which shaped the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with the EU -- out of the Customs Union, which stops the UK signing independent trade deals, and out of the Single Market, which requires the UK to accept unlimited immigration from the EU.

Read more of Luke McGee's analysis here

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2019-04-03 08:27:03Z
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