#Marr: Will the government be breaking a promise if #Brexit is delayed?
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox: “I hope we can avoid that” https://t.co/kakizrGsLS pic.twitter.com/IqHUMptX1U
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) March 3, 2019
A far cry from the unequivocal promises the Government has repeatedly given over the past two years…
Liam Fox says that MPs who don't "honour the result of the referendum" deserve to be punished at the ballot box #Ridge
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— Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge (@SkyPoliticsHub) February 3, 2019
“Those who get elected on that promise and then don’t follow it through… will have a difficult time with voters the next time. And if that happens then they deserve it…”
Liam Fox says he would not accept a customs union, even if it allowed for changes to the backstop, but doesn't say whether he would resign over the issue
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He won’t commit to resigning over it…
Parliament does not have the right “to hijack #Brexit and in effect, steal the vote from the people” says International Trade Sec Liam Foxhttps://t.co/E0eKrEmh73 #Marr pic.twitter.com/uqkV1ZxnJq
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 20, 2019
Trade Secretary Liam Fox has come out fighting against some senior Remainers in the Cabinet who are reportedly pushing for membership of the EU’s Customs Union. He told the BBC that Customs Union membership would not be delivering Brexit.
“We would have to apply European trade law without having a say in how it’s made, and we would also have to apply what’s called the common external tariff, which would restrict our ability to make agreements outside the European Union’s ability to do so. It would not be in my view delivering Brexit.”
Leaving the EU in control of our trade is the opposite of taking back control…
Liam Fox has said that Theresa May’s Brexit deal needs “legally binding” changes to address the risk of the backstop “locking the UK into the customs union”. Then Fox weasels out with talk of “clarification” and “definition”…
