May to meet UK opposition leader for Brexit compromise talks

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Source: Associated Press

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS an hour ago

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Theresa May and the leader of Britain’s main opposition party were due to meet Wednesday for talks on ending the impasse over the country’s departure from the European Union — a surprise about-face that left pro-Brexit members of May’s Conservative Party howling with outrage.

Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said the government was not setting preconditions for the talks with Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, but was also not offering a “blank check.”

“There will need to be compromise on all sides,” he said.

After failing repeatedly to win Parliament’s backing for her Brexit blueprint, May dramatically changed gear Tuesday, saying she would seek to delay Brexit — again — and hold talks with the opposition to seek a compromise.

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Just hold another referendum May..........................

As of 19 minutes ago.................

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[sandensea]

1. The woman is bad faith in the flesh

I certainly hope Corbyn thinks twice before agreeing to anything.

[Eugene]

2. Labour's Corbyn says Theresa May has not moved enough on Brexit

Source: Reuters

BREXIT APRIL 3, 2019 / 5:18 AM / UPDATED 38 MINUTES AGO

Labour's Corbyn says Theresa May has not moved enough on Brexit

Elizabeth Piper, Kylie MacLellan, William James
6 MIN READ

LONDON (Reuters) - Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Theresa May had not moved far enough in a first round of crisis talks aimed at breaking the domestic deadlock over Britain’s exit from the European Union.

The United Kingdom was supposed to leave the EU last Friday but, nearly three years after it voted by 52 percent to 48 for Brexit in a referendum, it is still unclear how, when or even whether it will quit the bloc it joined in 1973.

After her EU withdrawal deal was rejected three times by lawmakers, the Conservative prime minister invited Corbyn, a veteran socialist, to talks in parliament to try to plot a way out of the crisis.

“There hasn’t been as much change as I expected,” Corbyn, 69, said. “The meeting was useful but inconclusive.”

Asked if May had accepted his preference for a post-Brexit customs union with the EU, he said: “We did have a discussion about all of that.”

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu/labours-corbyn-says-theresa-may-has-not-moved-enough-on-brexit-idUSKCN1RF0Y2