Prime Minister Theresa May’s cuts an increasingly lonely figure after her decision this week to turn to opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to break the Brexit deadlock sparked a torrent of criticism from Conservatives.
The beleaguered leader wrote to Tory MPs on Wednesday to insist that several dozen Tories’ stubborn resistance to her EU divorce deal had left her with little choice but to look to Labour for support.
Britain is set to crash out of the European Union at the end of next week if it has not passed May’s withdrawal agreement or found a viable alternative plan.
“This is the only way to deliver the smooth, orderly Brexit that we promised,” May said in her letter, in which she also reneged on previous pledges to leave without a deal if necessary.
The outreach to veteran leftist Corbyn, a reviled figure among British Conservatives and right-wingers who label him a Marxist, has drawn fury from eurosceptics in her party.
Corbyn wants to maintain closer ties with the EU than May through customs union membership and close alignment with the bloc’s single market.
Source: Guardian Newspaper
