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'Drop hard Brexit plans', leading Tory and Labour MPs tell May
Senior Tory and Labour MPs called on Theresa May to forge a new cross-party approach to Brexit as fears grew that the prime minister’s weakness could lead to the imminent collapse of talks on the UK’s exit from the European Union.
In a dramatic demonstration of May’s loss of authority, as a result of Thursday’s general election – which stripped her of a Commons majority – the MPs demanded that she in effect drop her own Tory “hard Brexit” plans in favour of a new “national” consenus, that would be endorsed by members from all sides of the House of Commons.
May wanted a mandate for a hard Brexit. Now Europe expects a softer tone
The proposal, if adopted, would throw open the debate on what kind of Brexit the country wants, with just a week to go before May is due to lead the country in formal negotiations with the EU on the terms of exit.
It comes as senior EU figures expressed their concerns that the process could collapse because of May’s lack of authority in what are bound to be many months of tough and complex talks. A leading Christian Democrat ally of the German chancellor Angela Merkel – the MEP Elmar Brok – told the Observer that the chances of a collapse in the talks had significantly increased. “The British people saw through her [May]. The negotiations have become more difficult because Britain has not got a government of real authority,” he said.
May went to the country asking for a mandate on Brexit only to lose her Commons majority. In an intervention that will alarm hardline pro-Brexit Tories, the former foreign office minister Alistair Burt, backed by ex-education secretary Nicky Morgan and other pro-EU Tories, said Brexit could only be agreed and delivered if
the Conservative minority government built cross-party support behind a plan that would unite politicians and the country.
Burt told the Observer: “The new composition of the Commons knocks on the head the idea that the negotiations should be solely in the hands of the Conservative party. The government must lead them, and you cannot negotiate by committee, but it should now demonstrate that it has a sounding board for parameters consisting of senior parliamentarians across the parties, and some leading business and agriculture figures, for example.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/10/election-nicky-morgan-theresa-hard-brexit
'Drop hard Brexit plans', leading Tory and Labour MPs tell May
Senior Tory and Labour MPs called on Theresa May to forge a new cross-party approach to Brexit as fears grew that the prime minister’s weakness could lead to the imminent collapse of talks on the UK’s exit from the European Union.
In a dramatic demonstration of May’s loss of authority, as a result of Thursday’s general election – which stripped her of a Commons majority – the MPs demanded that she in effect drop her own Tory “hard Brexit” plans in favour of a new “national” consenus, that would be endorsed by members from all sides of the House of Commons.
May wanted a mandate for a hard Brexit. Now Europe expects a softer tone
The proposal, if adopted, would throw open the debate on what kind of Brexit the country wants, with just a week to go before May is due to lead the country in formal negotiations with the EU on the terms of exit.
It comes as senior EU figures expressed their concerns that the process could collapse because of May’s lack of authority in what are bound to be many months of tough and complex talks. A leading Christian Democrat ally of the German chancellor Angela Merkel – the MEP Elmar Brok – told the Observer that the chances of a collapse in the talks had significantly increased. “The British people saw through her [May]. The negotiations have become more difficult because Britain has not got a government of real authority,” he said.
May went to the country asking for a mandate on Brexit only to lose her Commons majority. In an intervention that will alarm hardline pro-Brexit Tories, the former foreign office minister Alistair Burt, backed by ex-education secretary Nicky Morgan and other pro-EU Tories, said Brexit could only be agreed and delivered if
the Conservative minority government built cross-party support behind a plan that would unite politicians and the country.
Burt told the Observer: “The new composition of the Commons knocks on the head the idea that the negotiations should be solely in the hands of the Conservative party. The government must lead them, and you cannot negotiate by committee, but it should now demonstrate that it has a sounding board for parameters consisting of senior parliamentarians across the parties, and some leading business and agriculture figures, for example.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/10/election-nicky-morgan-theresa-hard-brexit
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