The awaited meeting between United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May and Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn seems to be heading the country to a deeper grave as one minister Nigel Adams quits.
Mr Adams told Mrs May in his resignation letter: ‘I believe we have two great challenges. We must deliver the Brexit the people voted for.
And we must prevent the calamity of a Corbyn government. ‘Sadly, I fear that we are now at risk of simultaneously failing in both.’
He added that involving Corbyn was a ‘grave error’ saying any cross-party deal would be ‘cooked up with a Marxist who has never once in his political life, put British interests first’.
Mrs May said on Tuesday that she would seek an extension beyond next week to allow negotiations with the Labour leader aimed at ensuring the UK leaves the European Union ‘in a timely and orderly way’.
Mr Corbyn said he would be ‘very happy’ to meet the Prime Minister in a bid to offer ‘certainty and security’ to the British people, but Tory Brexiteers reacted with anger.
Jacob Rees-Mogg described the offer as ‘deeply unsatisfactory’ and accused Mrs May of planning to collaborate with ‘a known Marxist’.
Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson said: ‘It is very disappointing that the Cabinet has decided to entrust the final handling of Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.’
Conservative MP Henry Smith said Mrs May represents a ‘monumental failure of British leadership, a betrayal of the majority who voted to leave the EU and Conservative Party membership’, and added that he could not ‘countenance her Corbyn/Brexit process’.
The DUP said it ‘remains to be seen if subcontracting out the future of Brexit to Jeremy Corbyn, someone whom the Conservatives have demonised for four years, will end happily’.