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Labour MP Sarah Champion says she would back No Deal over no Brexit


Former shadow cabinet minister Sarah Champion has said she would “take no deal” over remaining in the EU.

The Rotherham MP said that the Labour party had a duty to deliver Brexit and so she would rather risk No Deal that risk not leaving the union at all.

Former Shadow Equalities Minister Ms Champion repeatedly voted against Theresa May ’s Brexit deal.

But the MP said she couldn’t admire Labour becoming a Remain party.

Speaking on BBC Politics Live she said: “If my party comes out as a remain party rather than trying to find a deal or rather than trying to exit, I can’t support that, it goes against democracy.

Ms Champion was speaking on BBC Politics Live

 

“I want us to leave, the country wants us to leave and for our democracy, I think we have to leave.”

Asked if she would prefer no deal to no Brexit she described the question as “awful”.

She added: “If it came to it I would take no deal if that meant we could leave.”

Describing the negotiation process she said: “It’s poker, isn’t it? And if I’m being completely honest, I hoped she would listen to what the Labour frontbench was saying and move and she didn’t.

“The extent she moved effectively caused her to be sacked.”

Asked whether she would back the government in a confidence vote in order to deliver a no deal, Ms Champion said: “I don’t know. Ask me closer to the time.”

It came as aides close to Boris Johnson is drawing up plans to suspend Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit , it has been claimed

The Tory leadership frontrunner has repeatedly refused to take the option off the table in his battle for No10.

Mr Johnson is reportedly considering suspending Parliament

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Conservative MPs opposed to quitting the EU without a pact have vowed to work with Labour , the SNP and Lib Dems to derail the bid.

But hard Brexiteers believe suspending Parliament – formally called “proroguing” could thwart attempts to scupper a no-deal exit.

The UK is due to quit the EU by October 31.

One plan could be to table a Queen’s Speech, where the monarch outlines the Government’s plans for the next session, for November.

By tradition, MPs do not sit for about two weeks running up to the state occasion – meaning they would be unable to foil Mr Johnson’s plan.

A source in his campaign told Sky News: “A number of ideas are under consideration, including this one.”

Mr Johnson’s allies played down the report.

But the bookies’ favourite for Downing Street is thought to believe that allowing EU chiefs to think the UK is prepared to leave without a deal is a key negotiating tactic to force them to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement or offer other concessions.





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