Yesterday, Donald Tusk used a hellish press conference to say that Remain had no effective representation in the UK owing to the fact that both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition support Brexit. Tusk said that as a result it was time to face up to the fact that the UK really will be leaving the EU.
Proving that point, Jeremy Corbyn has now made his biggest move on Brexit yet. The Labour leader has written to May setting out his terms should she want Labour to back her Brexit deal. In the letter are several demands which will make Eurosceptics MPs uncomfortable. Corbyn calls for the government to rework the non-legally binding political declaration which sets outs the aims for the future relationship so it includes a ‘permanent and comprehensive’ customs union and close alignment with the single market,
Given that the political declaration has no legal force, Corbyn asked that not only May accept his demands but that she then puts these new negotiating objectives into UK law so that any future leader – say a Brexiteer – could not change tack on taking power.
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