3:17pm July 12, 2017

There is clear and strong cross-party concern about leaving Euratom - Paul Blomfield

labourpress:

Paul Blomfield MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Brexit, speaking after a Westminster Hall debate today on the UK’s future membership of Euratom, said: 

“This is yet another important debate that the Brexit department has dodged, instead sending a Business Minister who was unable to provide any answers.

“The former Chancellor has indicated that David Davis and Greg Clark were overruled on continuing membership of Euratom by the Prime Minister. Reports from David Davis’ former chief of staff suggested that this was because of the Prime Minister’s absolutist and obsessional stance on the ECJ.

“There is clear and strong cross-party concern about leaving Euratom. It is time for David Davis to clarify if he is content to allow the Prime Minister’s reckless red line, threatening jobs and cancer treatments, to stand.”

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