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Liverpool Echo
National
Tom Duffy

Theresa May begs Jeremy Corbyn to do a deal to get Brexit 'over the line'

Prime Minister Theresa May has reached out to the Labour Party and said there will have to be "compromise on both sides" in order to deliver Brexit.

Last night Mrs May warned that Brexit might "slip through our fingers" unless a compromise deal can be reached with Labour. Today in a video message the Prime Minister said: "There are lots of things on which I disagree with the Labour Party on policy issues.

"But on Brexit I think there are some things we agree on: ending free movement, ensuring we leave with a good deal, protecting jobs, protecting security.

"And so we are talking. Can we find a way through this that ensures that we can get a good deal and a deal agreed through Parliament?

"It'll mean compromise on both sides but I believe that delivering Brexit is the most important thing for us."

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Prime Minister Theresa May arriving to attend a church service near her Maidenhead constituency. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Sunday April 7, 2019. See PA story POLITICS Brexit. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire (PA)

Shadow business minister Rebecca Long-Bailey, a member of Labour's negotiating team, said it was "disappointing" that there had not been any shift in the Government's red lines but "the overall mood is quite a positive and hopeful one".

Labour's key demand is for a customs union with Brussels in order to protect the flow of goods, but Brexiteers vehemently oppose anything that would restrict the UK's ability to strike free trade deals through being bound by tariffs set by the EU.

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Ms Long-Bailey told BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had discussed how any changes to the Brexit agreement "could be entrenched" so that any potential future Conservative leader, such as Boris Johnson, would not be able to "rip up" any compromise - a so-called "Boris-proof" deal.

European Council president Donald Tusk is expected to recommend a longer postponement of one year, with a break clause in the case of earlier ratification, in a so-called "flextension" deal.

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The prospect of a long extension to the Article 50 process could mean the UK being required to take part in the May 23 elections to the European Parliament, almost three years after voting for Brexit.

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