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Asked if she can be sure that he European parliament will ratify any deal in a timely way, and that it will not hold things up to force the UK to participate in the European elections, May says the European parliament can ratify the deal before Westminster has. | |
May says she is grateful to EU leaders who attended the summit yesterday. Some broke off election campaigning, and one postponed a trip to Vietnam to be there. | |
Labour’s Rupa Huq says she will back May’s deal if it is subject to a confirmatory referendum. That is her compromise. What is May’s? | |
May says constituents want to be able to move on. Having a second referendum would not allow that, she says. | |
Labour’s Seema Malhotra asks who May will include in the forum she plans to set up to consider what happens next with Brexit. | |
May says first she needs to pass her deal. After that, in the second stage of the process, she will engage with businesses, unions and civil society. | |
Labour’s Stella Creasy asks May if she agrees that the best way to consult on what should happen next with Brexit would be to hold a citizens’ assembly. | |
May says she will soon make an announcement on how she will solicit views on what should happen next. | |
Here are some lines from the Number 10 afternoon lobby briefing, from the Times’ Sam Coates, the Telegraph’s Christopher Hope and ITV’s Carl Dinnen. | |
Number 10 spokesman, in briefing after TM statement: “People could use a break” ... “everybody should take a break in the way they feel most appropriate.”When holiday becomes policy.... | |
NEW Number 10 has refused repeatedly to say if Theresa May will campaign in the European Parliament elections | |
A Number 10 spokesman says the C&S Deal is not dependent on Parliamentary sessions but lasts for two financial years. | |
Martin Vickers, a Conservative, asks for an assurance that May will never seek a further article 50 extension. | |
May thanks Vickers for supporting the deal, but she ignores his question. | |
May refuses to rule out applying for a further article 50 extension. | |
Labour’s Mary Creagh says May will not get a stable majority for any Brexit legislation in the Commons unless she includes plans for a people’s vote, which she says is Labour policy passed at conference. | |
Jonathan Djanogly, a Conservative, asks if there is a structure to the talks with Labour. Will MPs know more after the recess? | |
May says, if the UK is to pass a deal in time to stop it needing to take part in the European elections, a timetable will apply. | |
Labour’s Chris Bryant asks May is she plans to keep this session of parliament going until 31 October. | |
May says her focus with parliamentary time at the moment is getting her deal passed. | |
Antoinette Sandbach, a Tory pro-European, says her constituents are pleased to see the government in talks with Labour. She says a survey after the referendum showed only 35% of people who voted leave thought that would mean leaving the single market and the customs union. And she tells May he confidence and supply partners, the DUP, are undermining confidence and not supply the votes. | Antoinette Sandbach, a Tory pro-European, says her constituents are pleased to see the government in talks with Labour. She says a survey after the referendum showed only 35% of people who voted leave thought that would mean leaving the single market and the customs union. And she tells May he confidence and supply partners, the DUP, are undermining confidence and not supply the votes. |
Labour’s Karen Buck asks May when she will decide whether she can bring forward an EU withdrawal agreement bill. | Labour’s Karen Buck asks May when she will decide whether she can bring forward an EU withdrawal agreement bill. |
May says it will depend how the talks with Labour go. | May says it will depend how the talks with Labour go. |