UK PM May seeks Brexit fix in crisis talks - impossible - to rule out 'no deal'

British Prime Minister Theresa May scrambled to put together a new Brexit strategy on Thursday after MPs rejected her EU divorce deal and demanded that she rule out a potentially disastrous "no-deal" split.

The world's fifth-largest economy is in political turmoil and grasping for solutions that could smooth its planned departure from the bloc after 46 years just 10 weeks from now.

Governments across Europe are triggering plans designed to avoid logjams at ports and airports when trade barriers go up should London fail to find a Plan B.

The government held individual talks with MPs from rival parties after narrowly surviving a confidence vote brought on by the crushing defeat over her old deal with Brussels on Tuesday.

But the leader of the main opposition Labour party called the talks a "stunt" and refused to meet the premier until she ruled out the possibility of the UK crashing out without any future arrangements in place.

But May, in reply to a letter from Corbyn, said it was "impossible" for her to rule out a no-deal Brexit without stopping the process altogether. 

May will present her new approach to the House of Commons on Monday. MPs will then have a chance to submit...