Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan ripped into the “collapsing” political system in the UK as the Prime Minister continues to try to gain Brexit concessions from the European Union. Mrs May was in Sharm el Sheikh, attending an EU-League of Arab States summit in Egypt, where she discussed Brexit negotiations with her EU counterparts. Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Mr Morgan claimed the EU was watching the “British political system collapsing” insisting the Brussels bloc would not move in negotiations.
He said: “Here’s the problem it seems to me with all this. We are where we are, the clock is ticking down.
“The EU is showing absolutely zero sign of wanting to move. And frankly, if you are the EU, would you? What you are watching is a British political system collapsing.
“You are seeing both parties basically collapsing, both leaders having their authority eroded by the second.
“You are seeing all sorts of splinter groups emerging on both sides. Where is the impetus or the reason for the EU to give us an inch?”
George Pascoe-Watson, the former political editor of The Sun, claimed the European Union still had an “absolute fear” of Britain walking away from negotiations with no deal.
He said: “There is an absolute fear in Europe of a no deal Brexit because it hits them as much as it hits us.
“You will not hear that or see that being said right now, but behind the scenes, that is the motivator.
“That is why the Tory-right do not want to let her take no deal off the table.”
Commenting on the state of negotiations, Kevin Maguire, associate editor at the Daily Mirror suggested the European Union could offer Britain the chance to delay Brexit.
He said: “They know they have got a stronger bargaining hand. It may upset the Brexiteers, people who voted for it to hear that.
“But, the 450million of them, 60million of us, 27 of them, one of us.
“They have shown greater unity, 27 different countries, speaking different languages, different currencies, not all in the euro, than she has managed to achieve in her cabinet, her Government, her party, the country.
“It is an incredible position to be in but you can now see the shape of where the EU might move, and that is an offer to postpone Brexit until 2021.”
It comes as the Prime Minister has said she will put her Brexit deal to Parliament by March 12 at the latest – just 17 days before Britain is due to leave the EU.
Opposition parties have accused Mrs May of another attempt to “run down the clock” to force MPs to back her Withdrawal Agreement.
During the weekend three pro-EU Cabinet ministers, Amber Rudd, David Gauke and Greg Clark, suggested they could be prepared to vote for a Brexit delay there was no breakthrough in the negotiations.
Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who drew up the amendment with Conservative former minister Sir Oliver Letwin, said it would now become the “real meaningful vote” on the Brexit deal.
Education Secretary Damian Hinds told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the Withdrawal Agreement was a “good deal”, but it was necessary to deal with “legitimate concerns” about the backstop proposals before bringing it back to Parliament.
He said: “It is in the nature of EU negotiations that they do run long, they do go to the wire. These are incredibly important matters and there is a deal that’s been on the table for quite some time, it’s a very strong deal, it’s a good balance.
“There was a very heavy defeat in Parliament – there’s no sugar-coating that – but it wasn’t against the overall deal, because we know there is a will in Parliament, a majority in Parliament, who want to get a good negotiated deal. We know from the Brady amendment that it’s this backstop issue that has to be resolved to get this deal through.”