Conservatives will offer new concessions to Labour when talks restart on Tuesday, newspaper reports
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves church in Sonning, Britain, May 5 2019. Picture: REUTERS/Simon Dawson
“To the leader of the opposition I say this: let’s listen to what the voters said in the local elections and put our differences aside for a moment. Let’s do a deal,” she wrote in the Mail on Sunday newspaper. The talks with Labour are a last resort for May, whose party’s deep divisions over Brexit have so far stopped her getting approval for an exit agreement and have left the world’s fifth-largest economy in prolonged political limbo.
Corbyn has made a permanent customs union with the EU a condition for supporting May’s Brexit plans, while most Conservatives oppose a customs union as it would stop Britain from reaching its own trade deals with other countries.The report on the terms of a possible compromise angered Corbyn’s senior ally John McDonnell, who oversees the party’s finance policy and has been involved in the Brexit talks. Asked if he trusted May, McDonnell said: “No, sorry.
Eurosceptic legislator John Redwood tweeted on Sunday that a cross-party agreement that amounted to staying in the bloc was “the last thing we need”.
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