May under pressure to talks with Labour

London, May 14 

British Prime Minister Theresa May was told by senior members of her own party on Tuesday to abandon talks to find a Brexit compromise with the Opposition Labour Party as pressure mounted on her to name a date for standing down.

Nearly three years after the United Kingdom voted 52per cent to 48 per cent to leave the European Union, there is still no agreement among British politicians about when, how or even if the divorce should take place.

The country was due to have left the European Union on March 29, but May has been unable to get her divorce deal approved by Parliament, so she has turned to the Labour Party, led by socialist Jeremy Corbyn, for help.

Thirteen of May’s former cabinet colleagues  wrote to May to ask her not to agree to Labour’s demand for a post-Brexit customs union with the EU.— Reuters