Labour is charging ahead on its path to rejoin the EU, with fresh comments from the EU’s trade chief Maros Sefcovic saying the government is in talks to push for “dynamic alignment” between the UK and bloc. Yesterday, Sefcovic said the EU would consider Britain joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention (PEM), which would include the UK having to comply with common regulations on rules of origin on materials used in manufacturing. The Tories rejected the idea, though now Labour is consulting businesses on the so-called benefits of joining. Something that would come with very high price tag…
Tory MP Alex Burghart asked Europe minister Nick Thomas-Symonds whether he would deny that the government was in talks with the bloc about ‘dynamic realignment’, something that could lead the UK being brought back into the European Court of Justice. Thomas-Symonds refused to answer, instead saying:
“He knows the role of the European Court of Justice in the Windsor framework…we have set out the examples of things we are seeking to negotiate.”
A reminder that Labour’s EU ‘Surrender unit’ is heading up an ‘independent’ Windsor Framework Review’ – a trojan horse for taking the UK back into the EU. Meanwhile Sefcovic also tried to deny that a potential youth movement scheme would represent a return to free movement, rather it was a “bridge-building proposal”. Alarms bells ringing for Brexiteers…
UPDATE: At the Downing Street Lobby briefing the government doesn’t rule out joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention. No 10 says the arrangement isn’t a “customs union” and so doesn’t cross Labour’s ‘red lines.’ Brexit betrayal…
Speaking on Trump’s military action in Venezuela, Kemi Badenoch told the Today Programme:
“Where the legal certainty is not yet clear, morally, I do think it was the right thing to do.”