British Prime Minister Theresa May came away from a day in an increasingly impatient Brussels on Thursday with a pledge of renewed talks that held out some hope for a new Brexit deal, if no sign of compromise yet. Senior EU officials urged her to grasp an olive branch from Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn that echoed EU proposals for a permanent EU-UK customs union as a way to end deadlock on the Irish border "backstop". But EU sources said May had given little sign of how she planned to secure parliamentary support. Juncker and May issued a joint statement after what they called a "robust" discussion. But both parties are deeply divided internally over how or even whether to do so.

Source: dna February 07, 2019 18:22 UTC