Brexit news update: John McDonnell outlines Labour's post-Brexit plan amid leadership battle

Labour expects leadership challenge in next few days, says McDonnell McDonnell is now taking questions from reporters. He is asked if Labour would vote down leaving the EU in the Commons. McDonnell says Labour should respect the result, the party should consider the negotiation on the table. McDonnell is asked how his plan is relevant without the support of MPs. He says Corbyn will take part in any Labour leadership contest and says he hopes MPs would respect the result, and mentions the need for stability.

--> McDonnell outlines Labour's post-Brexit plan There is no appetite from McDonnell to contest the next election on a platform of staying in the EU, the shadow chancellor implied in his speech today. The party’s red lines are free trade in the single market and that no EU nationals in the UK now will have their rights affected in future. There is no mention of campaigning to preserve free movement rights across Europe.


  Arron Banks, the millionaire-backer of Leave.EU, the campaign run by Ukip’s Nigel Farage, has backed Andrea Leadsom for Tory leader, retweeting several positive articles and tweets about the energy minister. We’ll be following John McDonnell’s speech on Labour’s post-Brexit plan from 10am, which is happening on the South Bank.


 There’s no livestream directly from the hall, but my colleague Peter Walker is reporting from the event.




 Whatever Leadsom thought of Gove’s decision to run, and Johnson’s alleged hesitancy in promising her a top job, she was keeping her opinions to herself on Good Morning Britain.


 In the end I felt it was better to put my own name forward, because you do need a choice of candidates and it seemed to me that we might end up with only one candidate who had actually supported the Leave campaign. I was thinking about it all the way through, but I was also thinking about what is in the interests of the country, because to me the clear priority is to deliver on the referendum.

We have been given an instruction. We now have to get a grip and get on with it.

 The new PM, she said “has to be someone who really believes that the UK will be better off once we leave the EU”. Offers of a job from May were “a long way off … I am in it to be the prime minister.” Here are some of the most interesting lines from the Mail’s endorsement of Theresa May, a front page which surely will have caused some ruction in the Gove household this morning.


 It seems the Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre and his team were unimpressed with the justice secretary’s actions yesterday. This was, surely, one of the most unedifying days in modern politics. A day of treachery and opportunism on both sides of the chamber. A day in which the currency of political discourse was devalued still further.


 The paper’s endorsement so soon in the race, when Gove has even yet to launch his campaign, will have come as a surprise. In normal circumstances, this paper would hesitate to declare its hand before the closing stages of such a contest.


 But whatever these times may be, they are anything but normal. The Mail believes only Mrs May has the right qualities, the stature and experience to unite both her party and the country – and possibly usher in a new, cleaner, more honest kind of politics. Here, too, are digs at the political methods of Johnson and Gove. She does not belong to the Westminster chumocracy, which has corrupted our politics with jobs for flatmates and cronies. If she wins this contest, we can be confident that those she promotes will be chosen on merit alone by this living embodiment of meritocracy. Above all, she is not a believer in gimmicks, focus groups or conjuring policies out of the air, twisting and turning to feed the 24-hour news cycle.

 And if she can introduce a new, more serious, more truthful politics, she will be thanked by millions of Britons who are utterly disenchanted with the political process. The words for Gove are not brutal, but his methods are called into question. With the best will in the world, we cannot see Mr Gove as a prime minister for these turbulent times.


A great irony of his surprise decision to throw his hat into the leadership ring yesterday is that in the very act of doing so, he raised question marks over the qualities so many have come to admire in him: consistency, strict adherence to principle and, yes, trustworthiness. Gove, the paper says, would be better suited to chief negotiator for Brexit.


 This paper has enormous respect for Mr Gove. He can claim a large measure of the credit for the result, which this paper remains convinced was the right one for our country and Europe.

Source: www.frayokit.info & www.theguardian.com

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