Yet another black smoke on Brexit. It is now unknown what number we have reached, the fact is that now even the flexible exit on 31 October granted by the Union is frightening. The risk is that in London they won't be able to agree even for that date.
BREXIT: NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE LABOR PARTY FAILED
The latest news arrived on Friday 17 May: lnegotiation between Labor and Conservatives on Brexit has definitively failed. Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May have failed to agree on the fundamentals of the agreement. This was announced by the number one of the Labor Party himself in a letter to the prime minister in which he writes that after six weeks of talks we have reached "as far as possible", adding however that it is "by now clear that we have not been able to build a bridge between our important political differences", despite "the compromises" identified in "some areas".
The fault, according to Corbyn, lies in May's political weakness. "Every time an agreement was outlined, some member of the government contradicted it publicly" the opposition leader pointed out polemically, adding there were substantial insurmountable differences. Two in particular underlined Downing Street: the permanence of the United Kingdom in the Customs Union indefinitely and the possibility of holding a second referendum on Brexit. Both points, considered fundamental by Labor, met with May's No.
The Premier, during a rally in Bristol, in fact returned Corbyn's accusations to the sender. According to her, the failure would be entirely the fault of the Labor Party, divided over the possibility of calling a second referendum: "We have not managed to overcome the fact that within the Labor Party there is no univocal position: they do not know if they want to continue the Brexit or whether to hold a second referendum to cancel it”.
BREXIT: MAY TOWARDS RESIGNATION, HERE ARE THE NEXT STEPS
What will happen now? We don't know, the only sure thing is that June won't be an easy month for Theresa May.
It already starts on Monday 3. During the first week of June, the agreement signed by the Premier with the European Union, already rejected three times by Parliament, will return to the Chamber of the Municipalities for a new vote. It is not known whether May will re-propose the entire agreement or if he will limit himself to presenting to the deputies only the part concerning the conditions for leaving the Union.
Regardless of the outcome of the vote (the fourth rejection is taken almost for granted), the appointment should mark Theresa May's exit from the scene. As revealed by the British press, the Premier has already agreed to schedule his resignation for June, following which his successor will be elected. Whoever wins the race in the Conservative party primaries - scheduled for this summer - will automatically become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
To him or her, tasked with undoing the Brexit mess. However, a brief reflection needs to be made on this point. May belongs to the moderate wing of the Conservative Party, the one that in all these months has tried to appease the spirits of the hawks, intent on proceeding with the No deal and guaranteeing an agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union. In the event that a member of the most extremist wing of the party succeeds her – it is no coincidence that Boris Johnson is among the most popular – the hypothesis of finding a "soft" solution to Brexit could therefore fail and on October 31, the No deal spectrum will become a reality.
