-
· “A
blind Brexit could prolong business uncertainty and provide
insufficient guarantees to protect jobs, the economy and
rights. Whether you voted leave or remain, nobody voted for the
purgatory of permanent negotiations.”
The Shadow Brexit Secretary will travel to Brussels today
for meetings with EU officials and to warn against the dangers of
a ‘blind Brexit’.
Any Brexit deal put before Parliament will contain two elements:
a withdrawal agreement and a political declaration setting out
the future framework between the UK and EU.
However, Tory divisions and months of deadlock on the withdrawal
agreement have left little time to negotiate or agree a robust
and comprehensive deal on the future framework.
The Shadow Brexit Secretary will today insist that the future
framework must meet and ’s commitment for a “detailed”,
“precise” and “substantive” document.
He will say the agreement must – at a minimum – provide detailed
answers on future trade, customs, immigration, security, research
and collaboration. He will also make clear that Labour will vote
in Parliament against a ‘blind Brexit’.
MP, Labour’s Shadow Brexit
Secretary, said:
“This is crunch time in the Brexit negotiations. Yet government
divisions and delays mean that little time has been spent
debating what our future trading and security relationship will
be after Brexit.
“Months of deadlock in ’s Government mean we’re facing
continued uncertainty and the prospect of years of further
negotiations over our future relationship with the EU.
“A blind Brexit could prolong business uncertainty and provide
insufficient guarantees to protect jobs, the economy and rights.
Whether you voted leave or remain, nobody voted for the purgatory
of permanent negotiations.
“ and promised that the Brexit deal
put before Parliament will be ‘detailed, precise and
substantive’. That is exactly what Labour expects and what I will
be discussing in Brussels. If the final deal it is anything less
than the Government has promised, Labour will not support it.”
Ends
Notes to editors
- · While
in Brussels, will meet with
representatives from the EU institutions,
including , First
Vice-President of the European Commission, Markus Winkler,
Deputy Secretary General of the EU Parliament, and Roberto
Gualtieri, member of the EU Parliament's Brexit Steering Group.
- · On 4
October 2018, wrote in a letter to
: “As I have said previously,
this political declaration will be a substantive document which
carries significant force”
- In 9 October
2018, told the House of Commons:
“We want to see a well detailed political declaration so that
people, when they come to vote on the meaningful vote, have a
clear idea of the direction of the economic model and the
security model of co-operation.”
Source: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-10-09/debates/F7F959AD-FE66-4A20-A765-1E3F791C15ED/EUExitNegotiations
- · On 9
October 2018, confirmed that he and Number
10 would present a “precise future framework” alongside the
withdrawal agreement:
: “Yesterday, the Prime
Minister’s spokesman said: “There can be no withdrawal agreement
without a precise future framework” on trade. Is that true—yes or
no?” : “True.”
Source: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-10-09/debates/F7F959AD-FE66-4A20-A765-1E3F791C15ED/EUExitNegotiations
