Business Secretary Peter Kyle has given a stern rebuke to the Labour figures agitating for a return to the EU Customs Union. Mainly Wes Streeting…
The Health Secretary has used the line repeatedly to corral support from europhile Labour backbenchers in his leadership bid. Kyle has used an overnight interview with the FT to issue a rebuke:
“When it comes to a customs union, I understand why Lib Dem utopianism is so seductive. It took us four years to leave the customs union. Do people really think we can join the customs union quicker than it took to leave the customs union?.. I think at the moment it would be foolish to slip towards what would be simple solutions. What gives me anxiety is growth this year… that gives me more concern than not being in the customs union.”
As anyone with a cursory knowledge of blocs like the EU will know, it would be economically illiterate even for EU fans to only rejoin the Customs Union and not the Single Market. It would also take years and the EU would extract the highest of prices. Not that that’s stopped Labour before…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”