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| Labour vows to force Government to publish secret Brexit reports laying bare economic damage | Labour vows to force Government to publish secret Brexit reports laying bare economic damage |
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| Labour vowed to win a Commons vote to force the release of the secret analysis laying bare the economic damage from Brexit, as the affair was branded a “cover up”. | Labour vowed to win a Commons vote to force the release of the secret analysis laying bare the economic damage from Brexit, as the affair was branded a “cover up”. |
| Ministers faced anger from all sides of the Commons, as they insisted the document – which concludes all three likely Brexit options would leave Britain poorer - must remain secret to avoid harming the “national interest”. | |
| Keir Starmer, Labour’s Brexit spokesman, vowed to stage a repeat of the vote, last year, which forced the Government to release the notorious sectoral analysis of withdrawal. | Keir Starmer, Labour’s Brexit spokesman, vowed to stage a repeat of the vote, last year, which forced the Government to release the notorious sectoral analysis of withdrawal. |
| “Publish it now – not in nine months, but now, so we can hold the Government properly to account,” Sir Keir demanded. | |
| And he warned: “The Secretary of State has a chance today to avoid a repeat of that exercises if he commits to publishing this new analysis in full. Will he do so?” | |
| Brexit minister Steve Baker said MPs would be given an analysis when the negotiations over and before this autumn’s “meaningful vote” - but claimed publishing the incomplete leaked study would “risk exposing our negotiating position”. | |
| Some Conservative MPs also demanded publication: Heidi Allen said: “This is a one-time deal only and I, for one, owe it to my constituents to prove to them that I have exercised full scrutiny.” | |
| And veteran Pro-EU Tory Ken Clarke accused ministers of secrecy because of the “embarrassment”, telling Mr Baker: “Stop pretending that it is something to do with defending our negotiating position.” | |
| Labour MP Chris Leslie warned it would only be published when ministers had had a chance to “edit it, twist it distort it, redact the information in it”, adding: “A cover up pure and simple – and it stinks.” | |
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