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Labour's Corbyn says Theresa May has not moved enough on Brexit
LBN thread: May to meet UK opposition leader for Brexit compromise talks
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Source: Reuters
BREXIT APRIL 3, 2019 / 5:18 AM / UPDATED 38 MINUTES AGO
Labour's Corbyn says Theresa May has not moved enough on Brexit
Elizabeth Piper, Kylie MacLellan, William James
6 MIN READ
LONDON (Reuters) - Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Theresa May had not moved far enough in a first round of crisis talks aimed at breaking the domestic deadlock over Britain’s exit from the European Union.
The United Kingdom was supposed to leave the EU last Friday but, nearly three years after it voted by 52 percent to 48 for Brexit in a referendum, it is still unclear how, when or even whether it will quit the bloc it joined in 1973.
After her EU withdrawal deal was rejected three times by lawmakers, the Conservative prime minister invited Corbyn, a veteran socialist, to talks in parliament to try to plot a way out of the crisis.
“There hasn’t been as much change as I expected,” Corbyn, 69, said. “The meeting was useful but inconclusive.”
Asked if May had accepted his preference for a post-Brexit customs union with the EU, he said: “We did have a discussion about all of that.”
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Labour's Corbyn says Theresa May has not moved enough on Brexit
Elizabeth Piper, Kylie MacLellan, William James
6 MIN READ
LONDON (Reuters) - Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Theresa May had not moved far enough in a first round of crisis talks aimed at breaking the domestic deadlock over Britain’s exit from the European Union.
The United Kingdom was supposed to leave the EU last Friday but, nearly three years after it voted by 52 percent to 48 for Brexit in a referendum, it is still unclear how, when or even whether it will quit the bloc it joined in 1973.
After her EU withdrawal deal was rejected three times by lawmakers, the Conservative prime minister invited Corbyn, a veteran socialist, to talks in parliament to try to plot a way out of the crisis.
“There hasn’t been as much change as I expected,” Corbyn, 69, said. “The meeting was useful but inconclusive.”
Asked if May had accepted his preference for a post-Brexit customs union with the EU, he said: “We did have a discussion about all of that.”
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu/labours-corbyn-says-theresa-may-has-not-moved-enough-on-brexit-idUSKCN1RF0Y2