May should compromise on deal, claims Cameron

DAVID Cameron yesterday urged Theresa May to find a ‘compromise’ to get Brexit through Parliament as he failed to publicly back her deal.

Mr Cameron said the Government should try to find a ‘partnership agreement’ to unite the various factions in the Commons if the result of the referendum was to be delivered. It emerged earlier this week that Mr Cameron was privately urging Remain-supporting ministers to push Mrs May into a soft Brexit such as a customs union.

In private conversations with MPs, he criticised his successor’s refusal to seek a cross-party consensus to get a deal through. Yesterday Mr Cameron urged all sides to work together, telling ITV News: ‘The basic problem is that Parliament is stuck.

‘There are four groups in Parliament; people who want the PM’s deal, people who want No Deal, people who want a second referendum and people who want a softer Brexit. We – the Government – have to try and find a way of getting at least two of those groups to work together, to combine their options, to compromise.’

But he declined to say who he would back to replace Mrs May when she stands down, adding: ‘It’s not for me to say.’

Mr Cameron campaigned to remain in the EU in the 2016 referendum. He quit after the public voted to leave.