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		</div><p><b>Latest:</b> A second minister has quit the Government as Theresa May’s decision to hold Brexit talks with Jeremy Corbyn sparked intense anger among Tories.</p>
<p>British Brexit Minister Chris Heaton-Harris quit his post insisting that the UK should have left the EU on March 29 as scheduled.</p>
<p>In a letter to the British Prime Minister he wrote: “I simply cannot support any further extension to Article 50”.</p>
<p>The move came after Wales minister and whip Nigel Adams resigned saying the Prime Minister had made a “grave error” by reaching out to the Labour leader in the hope of finding a consensus on Brexit ahead of a crunch EU summit on April 10.</p>
<p><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/3F3D9B53-14DC-40B9-B9E5-5E8684F6CD08.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-129413" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/3F3D9B53-14DC-40B9-B9E5-5E8684F6CD08.jpeg" alt="" width="1077" height="1508" /></a></p>
<p><b>Latest:</b> A second minister has quit the Government as Theresa May’s decision to hold Brexit talks with Jeremy Corbyn sparked intense anger among Tories.</p>
<p>British Brexit Minister Chris Heaton-Harris quit his post insisting that the UK should have left the EU on March 29 as scheduled.</p>
<p>In a letter to the British Prime Minister he wrote: “I simply cannot support any further extension to Article 50”.</p>
<p>The move came after Wales minister and whip Nigel Adams resigned saying the Prime Minister had made a “grave error” by reaching out to the Labour leader in the hope of finding a consensus on Brexit ahead of a crunch EU summit on April 10.</p>
<p>Leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg described the offer to Mr Corbyn as “deeply unsatisfactory” and accused Mrs May of planning to collaborate with “a known Marxist”.</p>
<p>And normally-loyal Caroline Johnson joined a clutch of Tory backbenchers at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons who spoke out against what she called “the risk of letting down the country and ushering in a Marxist, anti-Semite led government”.</p>
<figure id="attachment_129415" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-129415" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/05D2A080-46E4-4D89-A68A-D587B41F8F03.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-129415" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/05D2A080-46E4-4D89-A68A-D587B41F8F03.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="840" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-129415" class="wp-caption-text">Nigel Adams has resigned as a minister over Brexit</figcaption></figure>
<p>Mrs May was meeting the Labour leader in her Commons office in the hope of agreeing a position which can win a majority within the next few days, allowing her to request a short delay to Brexit at next week’s summit.</p>
<p>European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said the EU would accept an extension to May 22 if the UK had approved Mrs May’s Withdrawal Agreement by a “viable majority” before April 12.</p>
<p>But speaking in Brussels, he said a no-deal Brexit at the end of next week was becoming “more and more likely”, adding: “April 12 is the final date for possible approval. If the House of Commons does not adopt a stance before that date no short-term extension will be possible.”</p>
<p>Mrs May told MPs that the purpose of her meeting with Mr Corbyn was “to look at those areas we agree on”.</p>
<p>“I think we both want to deliver leaving the EU with a deal,” she said. “I think we both want to protect jobs. I think we both want to ensure that we end free movement. I think we both recognise the importance of the Withdrawal Agreement.</p>
<p>“What we want to do now is find a way forward that can command the support of this House and deliver on Brexit, deliver on the result of the referendum and ensure that people can continue to have trust in their politicians doing what they ask us to do.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_129416" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-129416" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/051E967C-1771-4A4A-83BA-E53E2DA3EE0F.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-129416" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/051E967C-1771-4A4A-83BA-E53E2DA3EE0F.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="336" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-129416" class="wp-caption-text">Theresa May came under fire from her own backbenchers at Prime Minister’s Questions</figcaption></figure>
<p>Mr Corbyn said he welcomed Mrs May’s “willingness to compromise to resolve the Brexit deadlock”, but otherwise avoided the issue during their weekly PMQs clash.</p>
<p>Mrs May was also meeting Scottish and Welsh first ministers Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford.</p>
<p>In his letter of resignation to Mrs May, Mr Adams said the Government faced two “great challenges” of delivering “the Brexit the people voted for” and preventing a Corbyn premiership.</p>
<p><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/B0A265E6-26C6-4088-AE69-6C486827A6C6.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-129417" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/B0A265E6-26C6-4088-AE69-6C486827A6C6.jpeg" alt="" width="1350" height="1339" /></a></p>
<p>Mr Adams, who was made a whip in January 2018 and promoted to the Wales Office in November, said he continued to believe no deal was better than a bad deal.</p>
<p>“It now seems that you and your Cabinet have decided that a deal cooked up with a Marxist who has never once in his political life put British interests first is better than no deal, ” he told the British PM. “I profoundly disagree with this approach.”</p>
<p>Mr Adams’s resignation is the first since Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting and came shortly after British Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said a softer Brexit was “the remorseless logic of the numbers of the House of Commons”.</p>
<p>Mr Barclay told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “If the Prime Minister’s deal won’t go through and no deal in law is taken off the table, then the consequence of that is either a soft Brexit or no Brexit at all.”</p>
<p>He blamed hardliners in Tory ranks for the situation, saying: “It’s regrettable that what we have been saying for several months now is coming to pass, but that is the remorseless logic of not backing the Prime Minister’s deal.”</p>
<p>Mr Barclay later told the House of Commons Exiting the EU Committee that there had been no agreement at Tuesday’s seven-hour Cabinet meeting for any extension beyond May 22.</p>
<p>Legislating for and holding a second referendum would take at least a year and was not the Government’s policy, he said.</p>
<figure id="attachment_129418" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-129418" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/6B17EF86-60B0-405D-B835-48D79AC5BB28.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-129418" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/6B17EF86-60B0-405D-B835-48D79AC5BB28.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="384" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-129418" class="wp-caption-text">Stephen Barclay has said a softer form of Brexit is now inevitable</figcaption></figure>
<p>He told the cross-party committee that it remained possible that European Parliament elections could take place in the UK on May 23, though he stressed this was not the Government’s intention.</p>
<p>At Prime Minister’s Questions, a succession of Tory backbenchers got up to challenge the decision to hold talks with Mr Corbyn.</p>
<p>North-East Derbyshire MP Lee Rowley pointed out that the PM had last week called the Labour leader “the biggest threat to our standing in the world, to our defence, and to our economy” and asked: “In her judgment what now qualifies him for involvement in Brexit?”</p>
<p>And former Brexit minister David Jones asked: “Does it remain the position of the Prime Minister that the leader of the opposition is not fit to govern?”</p>
<p>A spokesman for the Labour leader later brushed off the attacks, telling reporters: “We are clear that there needs to be a majority found in Parliament to break the Brexit deadlock.</p>
<p>A few insults here or there is not going to dim Jeremy’s commitment to do what is right.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a cross-party group of MPs was attempting to force legislation to stop a no-deal Brexit through the Commons in a single day.</p>
<p>The single-clause Bill tabled by Yvette Cooper requires the British Prime Minister to table a motion seeking MPs’ approval for an extension to the Article 50 process beyond April 12 to a date of her choosing.</p>
<p>Labour is backing the bill, but Conservative MPs are being whipped to oppose it, as well as a business motion which would also put a third round of indicative votes on to the Commons timetable on Monday.</p>
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