Labour's Starmer: Johnson should have sent one letter to EU


  • World
  • Sunday, 20 Oct 2019

FILE PHOTO: Labour Party's Shadow Secretary of State for Brexit Keir Starmer speaks to the media as he leaves the BBC Headquarters after appearing on The Andrew Marr show in London, Britain, September 1, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party said on Sunday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was behaving in a childish way by sending two letters to the European Union, one requesting a delay to Brexit and one saying he did not want an extension.

Labour's Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer the party would put forward amendments to Johnson's Brexit deal legislation, particularly aimed at closing the "trap door" to no deal Brexit at the end of a transition period in December 2020. He also said an election was inevitable.

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