As another crunch Brexit week approaches, Theresa May has used a video message to update the public on ‘what’s happening with Brexit’. With the Sunday papers filled with angry Conservative MPs venting about her decision to enter negotiations with Jeremy Corbyn in a bid to break the Brexit deadlock, the Prime Minister uses the address to try and justify her decision.
Adopting a more casual tone that normal, May says that Parliament has rejected her deal three times and ‘as things stand’ there is little reason to expect MPs to back it on a fourth vote. This is why she has made the decision to talk to Jeremy Corbyn about what type of changes could lead to a majority supporting the deal in the Commons:
‘We’ve been looking for a new approach to find an agreement in Parliament and that means cross-party talks and when you think about it, people didn’t vote on party lines when it came to the referendum.
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