First, some good news. Theresa May is consulting party leaders and talking to MPs about the next steps on Brexit. About time too, though it is all frighteningly late. Now, the bad news. She isn’t doing the consulting properly. She is using the process to trade partisan attacks with Jeremy Corbyn rather than to start solving problems. It feels like a stunt. Such irresponsibility on a subject of such magnitude threatens the country. It must change.
On Wednesday evening, and again on Thursday, the prime minister held meetings with a variety of politicians. She was said to be in listening mode. So she should be. But there was little sense – in an invite list that stretched from the anti-European Tory right and the DUP to pro-Europeans in the opposition parties – that this was a process which recognised that the politics of Brexit crossed a watershed on Tuesday night when Mrs May’s deal was so humiliatingly defeated.
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