U.K. Labour Threatens to Back Tory Rebels for Brexit Deal Vote
- Shadow Brexit secretary demands six changes to repeal bill
- Starmer says will ‘work with all sides’ to end ‘paralysis’
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The U.K. opposition Labour Party could unite with rebels in Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party as a way to force her to give lawmakers a vote on the final deal to leave the European Union, the party’s Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer wrote in the Sunday Times.
Starmer demanded May accept six changes to the so-called repeal bill, including giving parliament the final say on whether to approve it and adding a two-year implementation period following Brexit during which Britain would stay in the single market and customs union. Writing in the Times online comment section “Red Box,” he vowed to “work with all sides” unless ministers adopt his suggested changes and end the paralysis over the bill.