May Hints at Customs Compromise After Securing Brexit Delay
- U.K. premier’s Tories in talks with Corbyn’s Labour Party
- May tells MPs to ‘reflect’ over Easter break on way forward
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Theresa May hinted she’s working for a compromise with her domestic political enemies on a post-Brexit customs alliance with the European Union, in a move that would put Britain on course for an even softer divorce.
May faced calls to resign from outraged Brexit-supporters in her Conservative Party after agreeing to a six-month delay to Britain’s departure from the bloc. She then risked further inflaming relations with her own side, insisting it’s vital to work with socialist Jeremy Corbyn’s main opposition Labour Party on a joint Brexit plan, even if this is “uncomfortable.”