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PMQs: May faces Corbyn after new free vote concession to Brexiters ahead of no-deal debate – Politics live | |
(32 minutes later) | |
Corbyn says Owen Paterson said during the referendum “Only a madman would leave the single market.” With May’s deal decisively rejected, what is May now for. Labour’s plan is the only credible show in town. | |
May says Corbyn says he opposes no deal, but he votes to bring it closer. Labour’s plan has been rejected several times by this house. She says she may not have her own voice, but she understands the voice of the country. People want to leave the EU, end free movement, have their own trade policy, and ensure laws are made in UK courts. Corbyn used to believe in this too. Why is he now against it? | |
Corbyn says May no longer has the ability to lead. It is rudderless. He says, where the PM has failed, the house needs to listen to the country. He says British citizens face uncertainty. May needs to show leadership. So what is her plan? | |
May says MPs will vote on no deal today, and then on extending article 50 tomorrow if no deal is rejected. MPs have to make choices. He says Corbyn does not agree with government policy, or even Labour policy. He has nothing to offer this country. | |
Corbyn says the CBI have described a no-deal Brexit as as sledgehammer to the economy. Manufacturing is now in recession. May’s deal has been decisively rejected. When will May accept that there must be a negotiated customs union with the EU. | |
May says the CBI says Labour’s policies would lead to a drop in living standards. Corbyn claims to be in favour of a second referendum. But he did not even refer to that last night. | |
Corbyn says May’s answer will not reassure people worried about their jobs. Food producers are also in despair. Will she now back close alignment to the single market to back their industry? | |
May says her deal does include access to the EU on the basis of no tariffs. It would help if Corbyn had read it. | |
Jeremy Corbyn also sends his condolences to those affected by the crash in Ethiopia. | |
He says May says the only choice is between her deal and no deal. Last night her deal was finished off. And she will not whip her MPs on no deal. How will she vote? | |
May says she will vote for the government motion. | |
May confirms she will vote to rule out a no-deal Brexit on 29 March. | |
Corbyn asks why May is still ambivalent about a no-deal outcome. | |
May says she wants a deal. Businesses want that too. One thing they worry about more than no deal is a Corbyn government. | |
John Baron, a Tory Brexiter, says the UK trades with countries outside the EU profitably on WTO terms. Does May accept that a no-deal Brexit is the default position, and better than a bad deal. | |
May says she wants to leave with a good deal. | |
Theresa May get a loud cheer when she stands up. But her voice does not seem to have improved since yesterday. | |
She sends her condolences to those killed in the crash in Ethiopia. | |
PMQs is about to start. | |
Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question. | |
And Lord Mandelson, the former Labour trade secretary and former European commissioner, has also criticised the no-deal tariff plan announced by the government this morning. In a statement released by the People’s Vote campaign, he said suspending customs checks in Ireland would be a serious mistake. He said: | |
Refusing to comply with our responsibilities under international trade law to operate a customs border at any frontier is not a serious or sustainable solution to the problem of a hard border that Brexit - of any variety - threatens. | |
Today’s ill thought-out proposals on tariffs and customs illustrate the political, economic and reputational risk that the government’s make-it-up-as-we-go-along approach poses to the United Kingdom. | |
Today the Commons must reject any prospect of a no-deal Brexit and on Thursday they should make sure any extension of the article 50 deadline is used to deliver the clarity about Brexit that has been missing from the last two-and-a-half years of debate. | |
Ireland ’s agriculture minister has said the UK’s decision to impose high tariffs on beef and cheddar in a no-deal scenario are “potentially a disaster” for Irish farmers. | |
Michael Creed also said that the logic of introducing a different regime for Northern Ireland defied Brexiter logic and accused the UK of being “selective” about tariffs to put pressure on the Irish to buckle over the backstop. He told RTE radio’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show: | |
It is interesting in the context of what is published today the UK contemplating bespoke arrangements for Northern Ireland, if we had the bespoke arrangements that are in the withdrawal agreement we would avoid a hard border. | |
He said the department of agriculture had modelled the impact of a full World Trade Organisation schedule would have add €1.7bn to the costs of products. | |
Ireland is the fifth largest beef exporter in the world with a trade with 50% of the meat going to the UK, a market worth €2.5 billion (£2.15bn) | |
Angus Woods, the Irish Farmers Association, national livestock chair told RTE. | |
The idea that Irish farmers and businesses would be able to pay a tariff and compete with the likes of South American goods into the UK market just wouldn’t work. | |
It doesn’t take a whole lot, targeting 50 or 60 container loads of the high value steak cuts into the UK market would be enough to drag the whole marketplace down and make it unviable for Irish farmers in the UK market. | |
This is what the Malthouse compromise amendment says. | This is what the Malthouse compromise amendment says. |
At end, add “; notes the steps taken by the government, the EU and its member states to minimise any disruption that may occur should the UK leave the EU without an agreed withdrawal agreement and proposes that the government should build on this work as follows: 1. That the government should publish the UK’s day one tariff schedules immediately; 2. To allow businesses to prepare for the operation of those tariffs, that the government should seek an extension of the article 50 process to 10.59pm on 22 May 2019, at which point the UK would leave the EU; 3. Thereafter, in a spirit of co-operation and in order to begin discussions on the future relationship, the government should offer a further set of mutual standstill agreements with the EU and member states for an agreed period ending no later than 30 December 2021, during which period the UK would pay an agreed sum equivalent to its net EU contributions and satisfy its other public international law obligations; and 4. The government should unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU citizens resident in the UK.”. | At end, add “; notes the steps taken by the government, the EU and its member states to minimise any disruption that may occur should the UK leave the EU without an agreed withdrawal agreement and proposes that the government should build on this work as follows: 1. That the government should publish the UK’s day one tariff schedules immediately; 2. To allow businesses to prepare for the operation of those tariffs, that the government should seek an extension of the article 50 process to 10.59pm on 22 May 2019, at which point the UK would leave the EU; 3. Thereafter, in a spirit of co-operation and in order to begin discussions on the future relationship, the government should offer a further set of mutual standstill agreements with the EU and member states for an agreed period ending no later than 30 December 2021, during which period the UK would pay an agreed sum equivalent to its net EU contributions and satisfy its other public international law obligations; and 4. The government should unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU citizens resident in the UK.”. |
Hardcore Brexitologists will know that the amendment is actually based on the Malthouse compromise plan B. For more on Malthouse, you can read the full text here. | Hardcore Brexitologists will know that the amendment is actually based on the Malthouse compromise plan B. For more on Malthouse, you can read the full text here. |
You can read all the amendments today’s motion on the order paper here (pdf). (Or at least all the ones tabled last night - John Bercow, the speaker, said yesterday he would also accept manuscript ones tabled this morning.) | You can read all the amendments today’s motion on the order paper here (pdf). (Or at least all the ones tabled last night - John Bercow, the speaker, said yesterday he would also accept manuscript ones tabled this morning.) |
Conservative MPs will get a free vote on the Malthouse compromise amendment, Downing Street has decided. (See 8.55am, 9.11am and 10.32am.) | Conservative MPs will get a free vote on the Malthouse compromise amendment, Downing Street has decided. (See 8.55am, 9.11am and 10.32am.) |
Free vote now for Malthouse amendment too after threatened ministerial rebellion... but not (yet) Spelman-Dromey | Free vote now for Malthouse amendment too after threatened ministerial rebellion... but not (yet) Spelman-Dromey |
This is from the BBC’s Norman Smith. | This is from the BBC’s Norman Smith. |
Am told AG didn’t get to see PMs revised deal until 1am on Tuesday morning. No wonder he wasn’t very keen on it.... | Am told AG didn’t get to see PMs revised deal until 1am on Tuesday morning. No wonder he wasn’t very keen on it.... |
Here is Stewart Jackson, the former Tory MP who was chief of staff to David Davis when he was Brexit secretary, on the Malthouse compromise amendment (see 8.55am, 9.11am and 10.32am.) | Here is Stewart Jackson, the former Tory MP who was chief of staff to David Davis when he was Brexit secretary, on the Malthouse compromise amendment (see 8.55am, 9.11am and 10.32am.) |
Memo to @10DowningStreet: Malthouse is your Willie Wonka golden ticket out of this shambles. Grasp it with both hands. https://t.co/qlzSKoor4k | Memo to @10DowningStreet: Malthouse is your Willie Wonka golden ticket out of this shambles. Grasp it with both hands. https://t.co/qlzSKoor4k |