Editorial Board
The Best Brexit Is Still No Brexit
The prime minister’s new strategy isn’t much better than her old one.
Problem solved?
Photographer: Isabel Infantes/AFP
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May this week stopped trying to get her fellow Tories to back her plan for quitting the European Union, and asked the opposition Labour Party to come to her aid. Could this be that most elusive of Brexit developments: progress?
Not exactly. For many reasons — politics, self-interest, the fundamentally incoherent task at hand — May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn are unlikely to hash out a workable agreement about how Britain should exit the EU. If they fail, May says she’ll let Parliament settle the matter by voting on various options, through a yet-to-be-determined process.