WATCH: Tusk says there is “a special place in hell” for “those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan”
The President of the European Council appears to have been taking charm and diplomacy lessons from Andrew Adonis and AC Grayling.
The President of the European Council appears to have been taking charm and diplomacy lessons from Andrew Adonis and AC Grayling.
She sought to reassure the “many people…worried about what Parliament’s rejection of the withdrawal deal means for them.”
“Some serious people from both sides came together in a good-hearted and civilised relationship, to try to find a way forward.”
“I think it’s incumbent for me as someone of the left to call out governments and states of the left.”
The Shadow Trade Secretary challenges Labour MPs who abandon the Party’s strategy in exchange for “a little bit of money” for their constituencies.
The Home Secretary wants to maintain security cooperation with the EU, but says there are plans to mitigate any loss of capability.
However, he won’t say whether or not he would resign if the Prime Minister pursued that course.
“Where there are common values, we will cooperate together.”
“We don’t intervene early enough with crime, we’re not supporting young people enough to learn how to avoid those things.”
“Those who block a deal and then complain about no-deal, I think will have little cover when they next face the voters.”
“I pointed out that this would be the first time in British history that we had entered into a treaty arrangement with anybody else in which there was no right to leave.”
“We can’t wait until a failure of the talks before we start to implement that reform programme. We have to begin it now, or nobody will take us seriously.”
“Last night, the House set a clear direction on the way that the House could agree a deal.”
“We’re getting a very clear message from outside Parliament that the country expects people with different views to work together.”
On the day that Labour comes out in favour of extension, the Prime Minister doesn’t rule out supporting the move.