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Labour's Ben Bradshaw throws copies of the white paper to colleagues
THERESA MAY’S white paper on EU withdrawal is a deeply dangerous document which should ring alarm bells for everyone on the left. It should do so equally for anyone concerned with the future of the British economy.
The white paper locks manufacturing, agriculture and fishery products within EU regulations in perpetuity. It keeps services, above all financial services, outside. This can only lead to a continued run-down of Britain’s productive economy and a further rise in an ultimately unsustainable finance sector.
The political consequences are equally disastrous.
The white paper would block the Labour Party’s radical industrial programme. Labour’s promise of public ownership and state aid for industry has done more than anything else to galvanise support for Jeremy Corbyn and for the reborn Labour Party.
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US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT