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Third-party mediation or consensus: What's the way forward for Brexit deal?

Proxy mediation by senior political or civil society figures in the UK might be the way forward for May and Corbyn given the current impasse between the two

Third-party mediation or consensus? What's the way forward for Brexit deal
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Feargal Cochrane & Neophytos Loizides | The Conversation
With Theresa May’s failure to pass the withdrawal agreement in the House of Commons, Brexit has entered a phase common to many intractable conflicts in world politics.

There is now a three-way standoff across all of the UK’s political parties over how to break the impasse. One group will accept the withdrawal agreement in its current form, another wants a harder Brexit up to and including a “no deal” outcome, and the third wants a much softer Brexit (or no Brexit at all), where as much as possible of the political and economic status quo can be preserved.

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