Brexit hangs in the balance: Corbyn's Labour says no breakthrough yet
LONDON - Britain’s exit from the European Union hung in the balance on Monday as Prime Minister Theresa May tried to coax the Labour Party into agreeing a divorce deal, two days before an emergency summit where she will try to delay the April 12 departure.
Nearly three years after the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting by 52 percent to 48 to leave the EU, May warned that Brexit might never happen, but said that she would do everything possible to make sure that it did. “The ball is the government’s court,” he added. “We need to see what they come back with and, when they do, we will take a collective position on that.”
She said May wanted Britain to have an independent trading policy - something hard to reconcile with Labour’s demand for membership of a customs union - and that both sides would need to compromise. EU leaders, fatigued by the serpentine Brexit crisis, must decide on Wednesday whether to grant May, who has asked for a postponement until June 30, a further delay. The decision can be vetoed by any of the other 27 member states.
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