The Shadowy Secretary Sir Keir Starmer says that the government has not proposed any changes to Theresa May’s Brexit deal during cross-party talks.
To find a proposal to put to the Commons before an emergency European Union summit next week Wednesday, meetings have been taking place between Tory and Labour politicians.
But Sir Keir said on the wording of the existing plan the government was not “countenancing any change”.
“We have made serious proposals,” a Downing Street spokesman said.
He also said, “The government was prepared to pursue changes to the political declaration, a plan for the future relationship with the EU, to deliver a deal that is acceptable to both sides.”
“Compromise requires change. We want the talks to continue and we have written in those terms to the government, but we do need change if we’re going to compromise,” Sir Keir said as he tagged the government’s approach as disappointing, and would not consider any changes to the actual wording of the political declaration.
No withdrawal deal, however, has been approved by MPs even as The UK is due to leave the European Union on 12 April.
To request an extension to 30 June, British Prime Minister Theresa May has written to European Council president Donald Tusk. But she says that the UK should be able to leave the European parliamentary elections on 23rd May if the Commons agrees to a deal in time.
Prime Minister Rory Stewart told the BBC in an interview that “In truth, the positions of the two parties are very, very close and where there’s goodwill it should be possible to get this done and get it done relatively quickly.”
He also said that there was “quite a lot of life” left in the talks with Labour although he also believed that there were a lot of tensions.