• Members of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee leave 10 Downing Street following meetings in London Monday. Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative government and the main opposition Labour Party were clinging to hope of finding a compromise Brexit deal, two days before EU leaders decide whether to grant an extension to the U.K.'s departure from the bloc. If they refuse, Britain faces a sudden and chaotic departure on Friday, the Brexit deadline previously set by the EU. | STEFAN ROUSSEAU / PA / VIA AP
    Members of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee leave 10 Downing Street following meetings in London Monday. Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative government and the main opposition Labour Party were clinging to hope of finding a compromise Brexit deal, two days before EU leaders decide whether to grant an extension to the U.K.'s departure from the bloc. If they refuse, Britain faces a sudden and chaotic departure on Friday, the Brexit deadline previously set by the EU. | STEFAN ROUSSEAU / PA / VIA AP

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LONDON – Brexit hung in the balance on Monday as Prime Minister Theresa May tried to coax the Labour Party into agreeing to a divorce deal with a better chance of passage by Parliament, ahead of a crisis EU summit where she will try to delay the April 12 departure.

Britain’s exit from the EU has already been delayed once but May is asking the bloc for yet more time as she courts veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn, whose Labour Party wants to keep Britain more closely tied to the bloc after Brexit.

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