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Glad you got there in the end, Mrs May.

Reaching out to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour, and abandoning attempts to court Tory no-deal hardliners and Northern Ireland’s stonewalling DUP, should have happened two years ago.

But is her quest for common ground sincere?

An early test will be whether Mr Corbyn is invited in through No10’s black front door in view of the TV cameras. If talks are hidden away in a back office, suspect bad faith.

May’s penitent speech was a world away from her hectoring last effort, acknowledging the “best efforts of MPs” rather than accusing them of frustrating the will of the people.

Let’s hope she strikes a similar note with Mr Corbyn. She’ll have to if her goal of an exit by May 22 is to be met. Calm, reasoned compromise on a customs union, and maybe even a ­confirmatory referendum, is the order of day.

Responsibility for the Tory Brexit chaos rests with her. But this is Mr Corbyn’s moment to demonstrate he is a Prime Minister in waiting – a politician who can lead, and deliver.

Go for it.

White jihadis

Neo-Nazi paedophile Jack Renshaw’s plot to assassinate MP Rosie Cooper and murder a police officer is grim evidence the far right is a mortal danger to Britain.

We owe a great debt to campaigning group Hope not Hate and witness, Robbie Mullen.

Security Minister Ben Wallace’s warning that these fanatics study Islamic State websites on how to launch attacks confirms the far right and IS are two sides of the same deadly coin.

The full force of the state must be brought down upon both.

Class warfare

Extra classrooms built on playgrounds and playing fields… schools forced to grow into “titans” of over 800 squeezed pupils.

When will the Tories learn? Education is everything. Build more schools now.