Matthew Taylor

Sunday shows round-up: John Major – UK may need ‘a national government’

Emily Thornberry – May is ‘out of control’
It is now two days since the UK was originally supposed to leave the EU, but with the government’s withdrawal agreement being defeated in parliament for a third time, events look more uncertain than ever before. Sophy Ridge was joined by the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, who wasted little time in blasting the Prime Minister’s approach to Brexit:

ET: She’s been taking the mickey… Even with just days to go she’s still saying ‘It’s my deal or no deal’, and that is not meaningful. That is not democracy. That is Theresa May stamping her feet and saying ‘I want this! No one else is allowed to do anything else’. No wonder she’s in trouble. She’s out of control. She’s not listening… It is a mess.

‘We cannot trust the Conservatives’
Theresa May had pledged to resign as a condition of her withdrawal agreement successfully making it through the Commons. Thornberry went on to tell Ridge that this was one of the reasons why Labour could not back the withdrawal agreement as it stood:

ET: It’s because it’s so uncertain. It’s essentially saying ‘Let’s leave, and then whoever is going to be leader of the Tory party next… [see] what it is that they will negotiate’, and we cannot trust them… And business needs to be sure about where it is that we are going, and what it is that we are doing next… We should be in the customs union, no ifs, no buts.

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