Theresa May uses Bible reading to send barbed message to EU that THEY need a good Brexit deal as well

THERESA May has used a bible reading today to send a barbed message to the EU on Brexit.

The PM used a reading at Westminster Abbey’s Commonwealth Day service to stress the importance of the “body” working together with “no division”.

She told an audience today in central London: “The body is not made up of one part but of many”.

Just hours before she jetted off to Strasbourg she read 1 Corinthians.

It said: “The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I don’t need you!’ And the head cannot say to the feet, ‘I don’t need you!‘

^“On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honourable we treat with special honour.

“But God has put the body together, giving greater honour to the parts that lacked it,  so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.

^“If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honoured, every part rejoices with it.”

It was seen as a coded message for the EU to compromise on Brexit as talks go down to the wire.

The PM will have last ditch chats with EU boss Jean Claude Juncker tonight, raising hopes that a deal will be on the cards to give to MPs before tomorrow’s vote.

The Government has said the Brexit votes will take place as planned tomorrow, but the PM doesn’t have anything new to offer.