Senior Conservatives tell Theresa May to ditch Brexit talks with Labour Party
Former colleagues urge the UK prime minister to reject the opposition’s demand for a customs union with the EU
London — British Prime Minister Theresa May was told by senior members of her own party on Tuesday to abandon talks to find a Brexit compromise with the opposition Labour Party as pressure mounted on her to name a date for standing down. Nearly three years after the UK voted 52% to 48% to leave the EU, there is still no agreement among British politicians about when, how or even if the divorce should take place. The country was due to have left the EU on March 29, but May has been unable to get her divorce deal approved by parliament, so she has turned to the Labour Party, led by socialist Jeremy Corbyn, for help. Thirteen of May’s former cabinet colleagues as well as Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee of Conservative legislators, wrote to May to ask her not to agree to Labour’s demand for a post-Brexit customs union with the EU. “You would have lost the loyal middle of the Conservative Party, split our party and with likely nothing to show for it,” the letter said. “We urg...
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