Some Conservatives have criticized PM Theresa May for reaching out to Jeremy Corbyn – Labout leader.
However, PM Theresa May has insisted that she had no choice but to reach out to Labour to deliver Brexit or let the whole toil all go to waste.
On Saturday night, Mrs May said in a statement that there was a “stark choice of either leaving the EU with a deal or not leaving at all.”
And after MPs rejected her Brexit plan three times, some Conservatives haven’t been happy about her next move which was to seek Labour’s help.
Three days of talks between the parties stalled without agreement on Friday.
Although Labout leader Jeremy Corbyn said that he had not noticed any change in the government’s position, he was “waiting to see the red lines move.”
A lot of pressure is coming from his MPs to demand a referendum on any deal he reaches with the government, with 80 signing a letter saying a public vote should be the “bottom line” in the negotiations.
Mrs May had “take a new approach,” as she said in her statement, “after doing everything in my power to persuade my party – and its backers in Northern Ireland’s DUP – to approve the deal I agreed with the EU last year, I “had to take a new approach”
Theresa May also said, “We have no choice but to reach out across the House of Commons,” insisting the two main parties agreed on the need to protect jobs and end free movement.
“The referendum was not fought along party lines and people I speak to on the doorstep tell me they expect their politicians to work together when the national interest demands it.”
She also said that getting a greater portion of MPs to back a Brexit deal was the only way for the UK to leave the EU.
“The longer this takes, the greater the risk of the UK never leaving at all.”