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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Sun May 12, 2019, 04:12 AM May 2019

Labour questions whether successor to May would honour Brexit deal

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-labour/labour-questions-whether-successor-to-may-would-honour-brexit-deal-idUKKCN1SI05G

May 12, 2019 / 4:58 AM / Updated 10 minutes ago

Labour questions whether successor to May would honour Brexit deal

LONDON (Reuters) - A major sticking point in talks between Britain’s government and Labour Party is the lack of any guarantee that a successor to Prime Minister Theresa May would deliver on any Brexit agreement, Labour’s trade policy chief said on Sunday.
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Barry Gardiner told Sky News: “We don’t know at this stage even if we could negotiate a deal, what we don’t know is whether the successor to Theresa May would actually deliver on it and that’s one of the big sticking points that we have.”
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Labour questions whether successor to May would honour Brexit deal (Original Post) nitpicker May 2019 OP
Three words I never abqtommy May 2019 #1
The government's failure to negociate in good faith... T_i_B May 2019 #2

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
1. Three words I never
Sun May 12, 2019, 05:26 AM
May 2019

thought I'd see together are "honour", "Brexit" and "deal''! I consider the whole Brexit process to be shoddy and corrupt.

T_i_B

(14,800 posts)
2. The government's failure to negociate in good faith...
Sun May 12, 2019, 09:01 AM
May 2019

….has been a major problem throughout the whole process. And much of this stems from Theresa May being too weak to take on the lunatics in the Conservative party who seem to think that honesty and acting in good faith is something that's beneath them.

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