May: ’Door Remains Open’ For Corbyn to Join Brexit Crisis Talks

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British PM Theresa May said she has held "constructive" talks with most of parliamentary leaders after surviving a no-confidence vote over the Brexit deal. However, Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, who had tabled the motion, was not present.

Corbyn said earlier that he would consider participating in the cross-party talks proposed by May only if the no-deal Brexit option is ruled out.

“Now that Theresa May's botched deal has been decisively rejected, the starting point for talks to break the Brexit deadlock must be that No Deal is taken off the table,” Corbyn tweeted as the first series of talks kicked off at 10 Downing Street.

For her part, , May said in a brief statement after the talks that she spoke to the Scottish National Party [SNP], Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru, while expressing disappointment that Corbyn had chosen not to take part in the discussions. The “door remains open” for the Labor leader to join the talks, May said.

Corbyn has been on offensive against May since her Brexit plan's crushing defeat in the Commons on Tuesday. May’s plan was rejected by 432 votes to 202, with some 100 conservative MPs joining the opposition in voting it down, in the biggest defeat for a sitting PM in UK history.

He tabled a motion of no confidence, calling for May to resign and advocating snap elections. However, the government narrowly survived the vote, winning 325 to 306 with the backing of the Democratic Unionist Party [DUP] from Northern Ireland.

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