Tánaiste sees obligation for Tories and Labour to find middle ground position
Mr Coveney said it was too early to try and predict what was going to happen next month when Mrs May seeks to get support for her withdrawal deal in parliament after repeated failures to get sufficient backing from MPs to date for the deal she has agreed with theBut he said he felt that there was a growing recognition within the UK of the need to bring the first phase of Brexit negotiations to a close and he welcomed confirmation by the British government that they were continuing talks with...
“I think it may have the opposite effect actually if the Brexit Party does well as people expect they will as a result of frustration among the British electorate - I think that it will be a reminder to the two big parties in the UK that middle ground politics needs to work,” he said. “It will be a reminder to moderate sensible thinkers who are trying to make things happen there that they need to find a way of compromise or otherwise extremists will continue to sell fantasies which is what“So it’s a reminder of the pressures on the mainstream political system in the UK to find a way of uniting their country behind a sensible controlled managed Brexit, to move us into a transition period that can allow for time and space to allow the UK and the EU to agree a sensible future...
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