UK opposition leader - I'm waiting for May to move Brexit 'red lines'
Source: Reuters
Brexit
April 6, 2019 / 1:00 PM / Updated 12 minutes ago
Costas Pitas, Francesco Guarascio
LONDON/BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May has yet to move the “red lines” that have blocked a deal for Britain to leave the EU, opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Saturday, after May launched talks with him in a last-ditch bid to save Brexit.
With Britain due to leave the bloc on April 12 and no sign of her minority government being able to pass a deal through parliament on its own, May turned to Labour Party leader Corbyn in recent days in the hope of securing a bi-partisan agreement.
A deal with Corbyn could be May’s last chance to deliver Brexit without either a long delay or leaving with no deal at all. But Corbyn said the prime minister had yet to show the flexibility that Labour would need to say yes.
“I’m waiting to see the red lines move,” he told the BBC. “I hope we can reach a decision in parliament this week which will prevent a crashing out.”
No talks have been arranged yet between the two sides for this weekend, a Labour source told Reuters.
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“Going to the EU elections for the Conservative Party, or indeed for the Labour Party, and telling our constituents why we haven’t been able to deliver Brexit I think would be an existential threat,” junior education minister Nadhim Zahawi told BBC radio on Saturday.
“I would go further and say...it would be the suicide note of the Conservative Party.” ...................
Many people forget why the EU was created, 1) it was created to be a state that would be able to compete against the United States when it came to various trade, and financial items...................and May and her tories, are whats called a "clusterfuck"