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Theresa May says she had to reach out to Labour or risk letting Brexit 'slip through our fingers'

In a video posted on Twitter, a smiling Prime Minister said she had to look for compromise from the opposition to get Brexit through.

UK PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has said that she can’t see MPs backing her Brexit deal “as things stand”, which has forced her to reach out to the opposition Labour party for a compromise.

In a video posted on Twitter today, May said the choice that lay ahead “is either leaving the European Union with a deal, or not leaving at all”. 

It comes as the possibility yet remains open that the UK could leave the EU without a deal this coming Friday. The Prime Minister has asked Europe to delay Brexit until 30 June, and EU leaders will consider this request at a summit this Wednesday.

May’s Conservatives are currently in negotiations with Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party to try to find a way to move forward with Brexit that would ensure a majority in the House of Commons back some sort of deal.

So far, MPs have voted against Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement three times.

The Prime Minister has said she has no appetite for a no-deal, but that isn’t echoed by some colleagues within her party and her Cabinet.

Senior Tory MP Andrea Leadsom told the BBC today that a no-deal Brexit would be preferable to cancelling Brexit, and that her party was working “through gritted teeth” with Labour on the issue.

She said a no-deal Brexit wouldn’t be “nearly as grim” as some fear, and that prolonging Brexit long enough to hold European elections in the UK is “utterly unacceptable”. 

Yesterday, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said it was “highly unlikely” any EU member state would veto the UK’s request for a further extension but said Ireland doesn’t want an extension that “just allows for more indecision”. 

If May must go to Europe with a new plan to deliver Brexit, then her hopes now appear pinned on an agreement with Labour.

So far, a consensus has not been reached.

In a statement last night, she said: “”The longer this takes, the greater the risk of the UK never leaving at all. It would mean letting the Brexit the British people voted for slip through our fingers.”

Corbyn said this weekend that he hadn’t seen any great change in the government’s position so far, and was still waiting “to see the red lines move”.

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    Mute Roy Dowling
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    Apr 7th 2019, 5:15 PM

    Her Deal is dead in cabinet. It’s an insult to the people of Britian to expect MP’S have a 4th vote on her deal but refuse any possibility of a 2nd public vote on Brexit..

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    Apr 7th 2019, 6:12 PM

    @Roy Dowling: pointless having a second vote unless the press start calling out the lies and self interests . Ress mogg will make a fortune out of brexit .

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    Apr 7th 2019, 6:45 PM

    @Roy Dowling: she looks like she needs some serious amount of sleep. Poor woman.

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    Apr 7th 2019, 7:46 PM

    @Arya: __ Her colleagues will put her to sleep when it’s all over.

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    Apr 7th 2019, 5:16 PM

    Should have reach out to all parties 2 years ago but Tories only care about there own money not there country

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    Apr 7th 2019, 5:30 PM

    Deal or no deal wasn’t this funny when Noel Edmonds hosted it.

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    Apr 7th 2019, 5:30 PM

    She used to say Brexit means Brexit.

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    Apr 7th 2019, 6:12 PM

    @artur filip: yet to meet anyone who can explain that soundbite

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    Apr 7th 2019, 10:45 PM

    @artur filip: ..and she used also say “no deal is better than a bad deal”. Lying through her teeth!

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    Apr 7th 2019, 6:06 PM

    Has anyone fed Sammy Wilson or is he still moaning about breakfast?

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    Apr 7th 2019, 6:52 PM

    @paul starrs: Sammy is very quiet sitting on the fence now after stirring up this mess. They are something else.

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    Apr 7th 2019, 7:01 PM

    @paul starrs: I’ve heard that Sammy, Nigel and Arlene have gone to Brunei to find out the benefits of Commonwealth membership

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    Apr 7th 2019, 8:28 PM

    I wouldnt’t believe a word of it. She is devious like the rest of the Tory party who put party before everything else. She has been lying ever since she joined the conservatives and this stunt is to try and pull the wool over the EU in pretending to compromise with the opposition parties she has never talked to before now.
    Nearly three years into Brexit and only now she wants to talk with Labour.

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    Apr 7th 2019, 6:59 PM

    Would Teresa May not just admit that she has a pain in her hoop with brexit and step down?

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    Apr 7th 2019, 7:26 PM

    @Seymour business: a boris can step in ffs careful what you wish 4

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    Apr 7th 2019, 5:12 PM

    Barking mad.

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    Apr 8th 2019, 1:38 AM

    Arlene, Sammy and the rest of the band have had their moment of Fame, it’s back to the backwoods now.

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    Apr 8th 2019, 5:53 AM

    And the problem with letting Brexit slip through their fingers is what exactly…

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