By The Washington Post | PUBLISHED: April 3, 2019 at 1:17 pm | UPDATED: April 3, 2019 at 1:17 pm By William Booth, Karla Adam and Michael Birnbaum | Washington Post LONDON – It might be the biggest gamble of her political career. Theresa May’s last-minute invitation to opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to work together on Britain’s exit from the European Union stunned friends and foes – and signaled the prime minister’s desperation to deliver Brexit. May’s dramatic swerve across her own red lines threatens to tear her Conservative Party apart, as fellow Tories on Wednesday heaped scorn upon their leader for sitting down at the table with an opponent they daily excoriate as a leftist menace. Hard-line Brexiteers on May’s right are not only enraged that she seeks compromise with Corbyn, but they also fear that she will agree with the Labour Party’s vision for an ultrasoft version of Brexit. Boris Johnson, a rival of May’s and Britain’s former foreign secretary, complained, “Brexit is becoming soft to the point of disintegration.” Johnson told Sky News: “For those of us who campaigned for Brexit and who believe in the opportunities of Brexit, it is bitterly disappointing.” Corbyn and his Labour… Read full this story
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