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British Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn took note on Friday (May 17th) of the failure of Labor's negotiations with the conservative Theresa May government to try to break the Brexit impasse. In a letter to the Prime Minister, he also warns that his party will vote against the agreement negotiated with the Europeans.
In his letter to Theresa May , the Labor leader writes that the discussions started "in good faith" on both sides a month and a half ago will not go further, because they could not find a compromise on several points of disagreement. essential.
Jeremy Corbyn also mentions the decision announced the previous day by the Prime Minister to set the beginning of June the timetable for the election of a new leader of the Conservative Party and therefore his departure from power , after a fourth vote of Parliament on its Brexit agreement .
For the Labor leader, this prospect of choosing a new leader makes the current government " even more unstable and weak by undermining its authority ." Above all, Labor now sees no point in agreeing on a compromise that could be forgotten by the next Conservative Prime Minister.
Beyond this, it is clear that from the beginning it seemed extremely difficult for both parties to convince their respective MPs to vote for a compromise, knowing that on the one hand the Conservatives do not want to hear about London in a customs union with Brussels and on the other, that many Labor MEPs demand that the Brexit agreement be conditioned to a second confirmation referendum.
The next step remains unclear for the moment, and the government has simply indicated that it will consider the possibility of proposing indicative votes on different options for parliamentarians.