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✒️ Brexit - Labour says it will crash the UK into any deal offered 🖋

3,482 views · Published 15 October 2017 · 6:42 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2017 · News & Politics

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Labour will veto the no-deal Brexit option with the help of MPs from other parties says the Shadow Chancellor.

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Speaking on the BBC Marr Show the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said that Labour would work with Tory MPs to block a no-deal Brexit.

Talking about leaving the EU without some sort of negotiated settlement Mr McDonnell said:

“I’m not willing to countenance that. I don’t think there is a majority in parliament for no deal.

“I think there are enough sensible people in the House of Commons to say, ‘This cannot happen, we cannot damage our country in this way.’”

It seems his intention is to crash the UK into an extremely bad deal, in the hope of us staying in the EU.

Responding later in the same programme the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, stressed that the UK would be successful whatever the outcome and also said that he thought that the UK and Brussels would come to a sensible deal because it benefitted us both, but that the UK farmers would be able to pick up the slack should there be no deal, which would damage EU farmers.

The Tory MP, Suella Fernandes, has also said:
 
“John McDonnell’s admission that Labour would accept any Brexit deal at any cost to ordinary working families proves that Labour would be prepared to see the UK at the EU’s beck and call for years to come, which is not what people voted for last June.”

There is now also a cross party group of MPs with plans to amend the Withdrawal Bill so as to give Parliament the ability to veto both the bad deal and the no deal scenarios - or they will try and prevent them by other legal means.

Firstly, you have to ask, hasn’t the shadow chancellor seen the poll earlier in the week where 74% of the UK public said they’d rather have a no deal than a bad deal?

Sources:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/no-deal-brexit-theresa-may-john-mcdonnell-labour-latest-eu-stop-commons-a8001306.html

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/15/labour-says-it-will-join-conservatives-to-block-no-deal-brexit

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