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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Labour vows to scrap May’s Brexit plan!

Labour vows to scrap May’s Brexit plan
LONDON: Britain’s largest opposition party on Tuesday vowed to scrap Prime Minister Theresa May’s “reckless” plan for Brexit and build a close partnership with the European Union if it wins a general election on June 8. Labour would reset the “failing approach to Brexit” taken by May’s Conservative government, Keir Starmer, Labour’s shadow Brexit minister, said in a campaign speech. “We believe in building a new relationship with the EU, not as members but as partners,” Starmer said. “Where jobs, the economy and retaining the benefits of the single market and the customs union are our priority.”
May has promised to take Britain out of the EU single market and customs union, and she is expected to announce plans to curb EU and non-EU immigration in the Conservatives’ election manifesto. Starmer said Labour accepted that immigration rules must change after Brexit but said the party does not believe that immigration should be the “overarching priority.” It would keep EU legal protections for workers’ rights and the environment and reject May’s plan for “slashing corporate tax rates,”he said.


Labour would guarantee that EU citizens in Britain can “live in certainty that Brexit will not affect them,” Starmer said.
He accused May of wanting to “isolate” Britain from its nearest partners and “strike trade deals with any country” that will talk to Britain.
May triggered two years of Brexit negotiations last month, promising to “take control of the things that matter most” to Britons. She called the snap election in a surprise announcement last week.
A cross-party group of pro-EU British lawmakers launched a campaign on Tuesday to support election candidates against rivals who back May’s “hard” Brexit. The pro-EU Open Britain group — led by Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat lawmakers — identified 40 of the 650 parliamentary constituencies where it will focus initial support. The campaign, launched with two other pro-EU groups, aims to mobilize many of their 600,000 registered supporters to ensure that May “does not have a blank cheque to pursue Brexit at any costs.”
— DPA

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