Labour Doubles Down on Commitment to EU Rule-Taking Before ‘Reset’ Summit – Guido Fawkes

Labour Doubles Down on Commitment to EU Rule-Taking Before ‘Reset’ Summit

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The Tories have today converted Kemi’s Brexit tests into an Opposition Day Motion ahead of the ‘reset’ summit on Monday. Make hay while you can table opposition motions…

The motion says the Commons “recognises that the Conservative Party stands by the result of the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union” and restates the Tories’ red lines:

• No return of free movement via an EU youth mobility scheme. Labour are somehow insisting a mobility deal is nothing like free movement…
• No acceptance of compulsory asylum transfers.
• No dynamic alignment between the UK and the EU. Cat’s already out of the bag there…
• No further oversight from the European Court of Justice.
• No joining the EU’s carbon tax scheme.
• No additional payments to the EU.
• No reduction in UK fishing rights.

Kemi finally said she was against Labour’s deal over the weekend. In a tit for tat Labour has tabled their own amendment to the motion which replaces the commitment with a statement calling for a deal “in the UK’s national interest…to deepen ties with its European friends” and “recognises the Government’s ambition to negotiate a sanitary and phytosanitary and veterinary agreement to address the cost of food and to tackle a range of other issues to reduce barriers to trade.” That equals rule-taking…

A Tory source tells Guido: “Everything people voted for – the freedom to control our own borders, laws and money – will be sacrificed by Keir Starmer to appease Labour’s London Leftie Luvvies with #FBPE in their X bios. It’s a sell-out of the 2016 referendum on an industrial scale.”

Curiously all Reform MPs have tabled an amendment of their own signing the party up to the Tories’ exact wording. Warms the heart…