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Brexit White Paper: Government publishes document setting out Theresa May's plan for leaving EU Brexit White Paper: Government publishes document setting out Theresa May's plan for leaving EU
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The Government has published its White Paper setting out Theresa May's plans for leaving the European Union.The Government has published its White Paper setting out Theresa May's plans for leaving the European Union.
More follows... The document restates the 12 principles for Brexit that the Prime Minister set out in her Lancaster House speech last month.
Brexit Secretary David Davis told the House of Commons that the UK seeks "a new strategic partnership" for when it leaves the single market and wants trade to be "as free and frictionless as possible" in this new arrangement.
The White Paper "reiterates our firm view that we want the EU to succeed politically and economically", Mr Davis added.
But his opposite number in Labour, Keir Starmer, said he cannot thank Mr Davis for his statement, because his party has not been given early sight of the document.
The paper has been produced too late in the day, Mr Starmer said, for meaningful questions now in Commons. "That is completely unacceptable," he added.
Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith called those objections "nonsense".
MPs will spend Thursday poring over the White Paper setting out its Brexit strategy as the next battlegrounds in the debate over quitting the EU begin to emerge.
They will also be studying a vast list of amendments from MPs of all sides to legislation which paves the way for Ms May to trigger Article 50 of the EU treaties to begin Brexit.
The 12 points in full as set out in the White Paper are: