Brexit talks to resume with both parties mauled by voters
Conservatives will offer new concessions to Labour when talks restart on Tuesday, newspaper reports
London — British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday stepped up calls for Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to agree a cross-party deal to leave the EU, following poor results for both parties in local elections on Thursday. The parties have been in negotiations for over a month to try to broker a Brexit deal that can secure majority support in parliament, after May’s minority government suffered three heavy defeats on her preferred deal this year and was forced to delay Britain's departure. “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. Labour responded by saying any deal should be done quickly but accused May of leaking details of the compromise under discussion and jeopardising the talks. May’s Conservatives lost more than 1,000 seats on English local councils that were up for re-election. Labour, which would typically...
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