Talks between Labour and the government over Brexit aren’t going anywhere. Labour has released a statement this evening saying that:
“We are disappointed that the government has not offered real change or compromise.”
The Guardian’s well informed Heather Stewart is reporting that Labour are saying that the government weren’t offering any changes to the political declaration, but just a memorandum to sit alongside the deal. This is, obviously, not enough for Labour.
The impasses in these talks is not that surprising. Both sides know that a deal risks splitting their own party and the prospects of two parties being prepared to take that risk simultaneously was fairly low.
The question now is whether Labour and the Tories can even agree on a set of options to be put to parliament in a set of binding votes next week. If they can’t, then the process will be no further forward.
Another thing to watch is how the EU 27 react to this stalemate.
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