UK Prime Minister Theresa May is scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron tomorrow, just a day ahead of the EU summit. She’ll also hold calls with other EU leaders today. May is generally expected to try to make her case for a Brexit extension till June 30.
But ahead of that, May needs to handle opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn first. The two could meet against to find a compromised Brexit solution to get through the parliament. But May’s spokesman reiterated her insistence for UK to have independent trading policy after Brexit. And that is clearly in conflict with Labour’s requests for staying in the customs union.
Labour’s Keir Starmer also said “Both us and the government have approached this in the spirit of trying to find a way forward. We haven’t found that yet.”He added “the ball is in the government’s court” and “we need to see what they come back with and, when they do, we will take a collective position on that.”
