With Brexit now on hold, there’s only one option left: compromise | Simon Jenkins

The referendum vote must be honoured, but Theresa May’s red lines will have to fade. It’s time to reach out to Labour

The Brexit chasm has seemed unbridgeable. No path has appeared through the impasse. Tonight a glimmer of a route came into view. Parliament decided to ask the EU to postpone Brexit day and extend the negotiating phase, probably for three months. It did so, shamelessly, because it could not agree on what on earth to do next.

The EU, reasonably, asks why. If the UK could not decid...