The Commons has grown rather used to Theresa May giving an update on Brexit each Monday afternoon, and still more used to the Prime Minister offering precious little in the way of new information each time she does so. Today’s statement was a little different, in that May is now asking MPs for more information, rather than MPs turning on her and accusing her of not telling them anything.
She laboured rather heavily on the point that Jeremy Corbyn has so far refused to attend the cross-party talks designed to work out an agreement that the Commons can stomach, introducing it early in her statement, and returning to the point again after the Labour leader had finished talking. She claimed that the government had ‘approached these meetings in a constructive spirit, without preconditions, and I am pleased that everyone we met with took the same approach’, adding:
‘I regret that the Right Honourable Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has not chosen to take part so far.
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