Working to deliver Brexit

This week the government will table legislation which gives MPs a chance to respect the result of the referendum, take back control and get Brexit done on 31 October in an orderly and friendly way.

The Prime Minister does not want more delay and European leaders do not want more delay - a further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners and the relationship between us.

Parliament passed a law requiring that unless certain conditions were met - particularly, that there had to be a deal on the table - the government must send a letter to EU president Donald Tusk begging for an extension.

When a deal which they have never expected was agreed and it looked like the government was going to meet those conditions, parliament moved the goalposts and made it law that they should send the letter anyway.

This was Parliament’s letter, not the Prime Minister‘s letter, but the government has complied with the letter of the law.

Nevertheless the Conservatives are still committed to leaving the EU and completing Brexit so that the country can move on.

The New deal means
  • Britain is out of all EU laws. We will be able to change our laws in a huge number of areas – from product standards to fishing rules to farming subsidies – where we are currently bound by EU rules. We will be able to strike our own free trade deals. 
  • We will have an unqualified right to strike our own trade deals around the world, and the whole UK will participate in them. 
  • European Court supremacy ends in Britain. It will be our courts, applying our laws, which will be the highest authority in the land. 
  • We will be in control of our taxes. We will be able to change VAT rules and other tax laws that are currently determined by Brussels. 
  • Northern Ireland will be in the UK customs territory forever. There is now no doubt that Northern Ireland remains part of the UK’s customs territory and will benefit from the free trade deals we strike. The anti-democratic backstop has been abolished. 
  • The people of Northern Ireland will be in charge of the laws that they live by, and – unlike the backstop – will have the right to end the special arrangement if they so choose by a simple majority vote in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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