LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May tried to persuade the leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on Monday to work with her government on a common Brexit negotiating position, but the Scottish leader dismissed the meeting as "deeply frustrating". May says that while the devolved governments of the UK’s three smaller nations should give their views on what the terms of Brexit should be, they must not undermine the UK’s strategy by seeking separate settlements with the EU. "I don’t know what the UK’s negotiating position is because they can’t tell us," Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said after talks at May’s Downing Street office. "I can’t undermine something that doesn’t exist, it doesn’t appear to me at the moment that there is a UK negotiating strategy," she said. While England and Wales voted for Brexit in a June referendum, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU, setting the devolved governments in Edinburgh and Belfast on a collision ...
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