Starmer says Tusk/Juncker letter shows May has 'failed to deliver'
Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, has put out this response to the Tusk/Juncker letter. He said:
The prime minister has once again failed to deliver.
This is a long way from the significant and legally effective commitment the prime minister promised last month. It is a reiteration of the EU’s existing position. Once again, nothing has changed.
Q: [From the Daily Mail] Will you go further, on a customs union or anything else, to get the support of Labour MPs?
May says she is opposed to being in a customs union. The UK would not be able to run an independent trade policy if it stayed in the customs union, he says.
Q: [From ITV’s Paul Brand] You have had two years to reach out to MPs, and now you have nothing new to offer them. Why shouldn’t parliament take control?
May says she has been reaching out to MPs. She does not accept she has achieved nothing. The exchange of letters does does give further assurances.
She says the government must deliver on the result of the referendum. It has a duty to deliver Brexit. That is what she will do, she says.
Q: [From the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg] Do you really think you have a chance of changing MPs’ minds?
May says she has been speaking to MPs over the weekend, she will make a statement this afternoon, and she will close the debate tomorrow night. She says some MPs are changing their views. These assurances should give MPs more confidence that the backstop will not be implemented, she says.
May says Brexit could be halted if her deal gets voted down
May says, in her judgment, if MPs were to vote down her deal, the most likely result would be a paralysis in parliament would “risk there being no Brexit”.
May says Brexit could be halted if her deal gets voted down.
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