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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Oliver Milne

BREAKING Brexit: Labour PULL OUT of talks with Theresa May's 'disintegrating' government

Labour have pulled out of Brexit negotiations with the government.

For the last six weeks the party has been locked in talks with to see if they could agree a deal to get an amended version of Theresa May's Brexit deal over the line.

But, despite a face-to-face meeting between Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May earlier this week the party have left talks.

Jeremy Corbyn said the Brexit compromise talks with the government have “gone as far as they can”

Writing to the PM he said that talks on finding a compromise agreement for leaving the European Union have “gone as far as they can” due to “the increasing weakness and instability” of the government.

On Tuesday, Labour warned that Mrs May was unwilling to move on key issues - such as remaining in a customs union with the EU.

Jeremy Corbyn hinted at his frustration with the negotiations last week.

He said: “It is quite difficult to negotiate with a disintegrating government with cabinet ministers jockeying for the succession, rather than working for an agreement”

Earlier this week, Shadow chancellor John McDonnell warned Labour could not “march its troops” up a hill towards a Brexit deal that a new Tory PM such as Boris Johnson could tear up immediately.

(Ian Vogler/Daily Mirror)

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Another shadow cabinet minister told the Mirror: “There’s no certainty that anything that’s agreed with Theresa May will be upheld by a new PM. So there’s no point talks continuing. They’re dead, it’s just a matter of when Jeremy tells her.”he summer Parliamentary recess.

Labour's Hilary Benn, chairman of the Brexit Select Committee, said there was little point in continuing the cross-party talks with the Tories if they were going nowhere, amid reports they are about to be called off.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It doesn't come as a great surprise to me because over the six weeks they've been going it doesn't appear that much progress has been made...

"If there's not going to be any progress then there wouldn't be much point in carrying on."

On Tuesday, the Prime Minister confirmed she would bring a Brexit bill before Parliament the week beginning June 3rd - just as US President Donald Trump rolls into town for a state visit.

MPs have already rejected Mrs May’s plan three times and she has been negotiating with Labour to try to break the impasse.

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