UK’s Labour pledges new Brexit strategy if it wins election

They will also use its database of 600,000 supporters to provide help to MPs who have spoken out against a hard Brexit, including Labour’s Mary Creagh, Tory Neil Carmichael and Green MP Caroline Lucas. “Giving the people a say on the final Brexit deal is the best way of avoiding the hard Brexit that Theresa May is driving us towards”. May’s party only has a slim majority in Parliament, but opinion polls suggest that her party will win a greater number of seats in June. Jeremy Corbyn overcame odds of 200-1 against him by winning Labour’s bitter leadership battle past year, May noted.

In response, the Conservatives, however, said Labour Party chief Jeremy Corbyn was a “weak leader of a divided party who could not get the right deal for the UK”.

“We need to leave options on the table, we need to get the right deal with the European Union and we have to recognise that with 44% of our trade with the European Union that is the number one consideration”, he said.

While May promises certainty, she realistically cannot deliver it. Starmer is right to describe her approach as “rigid and reckless“, given that the Prime Minister has no control over the reactions and responses to negotiation that can be expected from the other member nations.

When he took questions from journalists after his speech, he said that freedom of movement would come to an end.

“They’ve said that no deal is not a viable option, so a Labour government, a Corbyn government, would go into the negotiation saying whatever happens we’re going make a deal, that is not a strong opening stance in any negotiation”.

However, Starmer insisted that Labour had to accept that the European Union referendum result had been primarily caused by voter discontent over immigration and insisted that Labour had to show they “genuinely” understood voters’ wishes.

May’s “modern industrial strategy” – a interventionist approach to rebalance Britain’s heavily services-based economy – will feature, while ministers have said there will also be a pledge to act in the energy market, possibly through a cap on prices for domestic customers.

Starmer said a Labour government would tear up May’s negotiating plan and seek to retain the “benefits” of single-market membership.

He insisted that leaving the European Union without a deal would be “reckless” and represent the worst outcome for the UK.

“Securing that deal is my priority and we have the plan to do it”.

Farron said: “Labour’s Brexit plan has more holes than a colander”. This outline for Britain’s future is a litany of failures. They will be able to choose which local campaigns to join.

Political uncertainty is seen as the greatest investment risk by about 74% of United Kingdom independent financial advisors (IFAs), a survey showed. “They should not be used as bargaining chips”.

Colin Fox, former MSP for the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) agrees with Theresa May that “Brexit means Brexit” and the June 8 election will not change the fact that Britain is leaving the EU.