The Latest: EU chief rues failure to enter Brexit campaign
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on Britain’s departure from the European Union (all times local):
1:35 p.m.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says one of his biggest mistakes in office was failing to get involved in the Brexit referendum campaign and counter what he says were the lies spread.
Juncker told reporters that he stayed out of the June 23, 2016 vote at the request of then prime minister, David Cameron, and that his mistake had been “to listen too carefully” to the premier.
Juncker says “it was a mistake not to intervene and not to interfere, because we would have been the only ones to destroy the lies which were circulated around.”
Juncker, whose term of office runs out at the end of October, said: “I was wrong to be silent.”
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9:55 a.m.
The British government is making a final push to do a Brexit deal with the opposition Labour Party, amid mounting outrage from Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party at the prospect of compromise.
Senior Conservative and Labour lawmakers are meeting to see whether they can reach a compromise. Several weeks of talks have so far not produced a breakthrough.
Almost three years after Britain voted to leave the EU, the date and terms of Brexit remain uncertain because lawmakers have repeatedly rejected May’s divorce deal with the bloc.
That has led her to seek a deal with Labour — to the fury of pro-Brexit Conservatives, who are demanding May’s resignation.
The head of a powerful Conservative committee is due to meet May Tuesday to deliver a demand for “clarity” about her departure date.
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