Theresa May has called for Jeremy Corbyn to “put their differences aside” and agree a Brexit deal.
The UK was supposed to leave the EU on 29 March – but the deadline was delayed until 31 October, after MPs rejected Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement three times.
Mrs May is now seeking Labour support to get an agreement through Parliament.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday , she said they should “listen to what voters” said in Thursday’s local elections.
According to the Sunday Times , Mrs May will comprise on three areas: customs, goods alignment and workers’ rights.
The paper says she could put forward plans for a comprehensive, but temporary, customs arrangement with the EU that would last until the next general election.
The BBC’s political correspondent Chris Mason said reaching a deal was “fraught with risk” for both Mrs May and Mr Corbyn.
“A deal on a customs union would be deeply divisive for the Conservatives,” he said. “Accepting there’d be no new referendum would split Labour.”
Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers, told the Telegraph that staying in a customs union could lead to a “catastrophic split” in the Conservative Party.
Source: BBC News
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This following week the next round of Brexit deliberations starts in the Commons. Could we be closer to a cross-party agreement on future ”Customs arrangements” in UK?
On Friday Irish Times reported outbreak of optimism over customs union talks between Tory and Labour. In addition, sources claim that if an agreement can’t be reached, PM Theresa May wants binding indicative votes in House of Commons.
Irish Times writes, Brexit will return to the top of the agenda next Tuesday with the conclusion of negotiations between the government and Labour.
Both sides sounded optimistic this week about reaching a common position on the UK’s customs arrangements with the European Union. Theresa May has long ruled out membership of a customs union after Brexit, which has been a central demand of the Labour leadership.
But the prime minister suggested on Wednesday that she could now accept a customs union – as long as it was called something else.
“Various terms are used in relation to customs. Sometimes people use different terms to mean the same thing,” she told the House of Commons liaison committee. “We are sitting down and talking about what it is that we both want to achieve in relation [to customs]. I think actually there is a greater commonality in terms of some of the benefits of a customs union that we have already identified between ourselves and the official opposition.”
The two sides appear to be moving towards a “customs arrangement” that would see the UK adopting the EU’s common external tariff and customs code for goods. This arrangement would mimic customs union membership in almost every respect, with the European Commission negotiating trade deals for goods on behalf of the UK.
The prime minister would still be able to claim that the UK could pursue an independent trade policy because it could negotiate bilateral deals with other countries on services, intellectual property, public procurement and some regulatory barriers to trade.
Source: Irish Times
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