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Evening Standard
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Patrick Grafton-Green, Katy Clifton

Brexit news live: Jeremy Corbyn 'very happy' to meet Theresa May after she extends invitation

Theresa May said she will seek a further extension to Article 50 following an eight-hour cabinet meeting in Downing Street as she tries to break the Brexit deadlock.

In statement on Tuesday evening, the PM also offered to sit down with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to try to agree a plan which allows the UK to leave the EU with a deal.

Mr Corbyn later said he was "very happy" to meet Mrs May, adding he recognised his "responsibility to represent the people that supported Labour in the last election and the people who didn't support Labour".

It came after MPs rejected all alternative options in a second round of indicative votes on Monday night, leading the EU's Michel Barnier to say a no-deal Brexit was more likely and Labour's Yvette Cooper to table a bill aimed at averting no-deal.

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