Tag: Sir Keir Starmer

• Tuesday, August 29th 2017 - 07:43 UTC

  EU tells UK it must take withdrawal talks “seriously” and end “ambiguity”

  

  The UK has been told by the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator that it needs to take withdrawal talks “seriously”. Michel Barnier used the opening of a third round of talks in Brussels on Monday to insist that London must end “ambiguity” regarding key positions like the Brexit divorce bill.

• Monday, August 28th 2017 - 09:11 UTC

  Labour proposes a post-Brexit short “transitional period” and fee movement for working people

  

  Labour would keep the UK in the EU single market and customs union for a transitional period after leaving the EU, the party has said. Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer clarified Labor's position on leaving the EU in The Observer.

• Monday, August 28th 2017 - 08:39 UTC

  Scottish cautious reply to Labour's “transitional period” proposal for Brexit

  

  Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has given a cautious welcome to a change of emphasis from Labour on Brexit, which has said it would advocate the UK remaining within the EU's single market and the customs union “for a transitional period”.

• Tuesday, August 15th 2017 - 14:52 UTC

  UK wants to secure a post-Brexit “ambitious new customs arrangement” with the EU

  

  The UK has set out the “ambitious new customs arrangement” it wants to secure with the EU after Brexit. Ministers said the plans would mean the “freest and most frictionless possible trade” with the rest of Europe and could include a “temporary customs union” after Brexit to prevent border problems as the UK leaves the EU.

• Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 14:53 UTC

  Hammond admits post-Brexit transitional deal up, but until general election in 2022

  

  Any “transitional deal” in the period after Brexit must end by June 2022, the time of the next general election, Philip Hammond has said. But the chancellor said there must be “business as usual, life as normal” for Britons as the UK left the EU.