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PM defends Brexit plan after EU launches legal action
Downing Street has defended the government’s plan to override parts of the Northern Ireland protocol after the EU confirmed that it is taking legal action over the UK’s proposed changes to the post-Brexit trading arrangements.
Boris Johnson’s official spokesperson said the government “disappointed” in the EU’s decision to take the issue back through the courts.
“We will consider these documents carefully and respond formally in due course, however we are disappointed the EU has taken this legal action today,” the spokesman said.
“The EU’s proposed approach, which doesn’t differ from what they have said previously, would increase burdens on business and citizens and take us backwards from where we are currently.
“The infractions are related to the implementation of the protocol in our recently published Bill. It is difficult to see how scrapping grace periods and adding additional controls and checks would be the situation better.”
Labour have to be in ‘perpetual campaign mode’ until next election, says Sarwar
Labour needs to be in “perpetual campaign mode” until the next general election to ensure the party returns to government, Anas Sarwar has said.
The Scottish Labour leader spoke about his party’s preparedness as he launched a new campaign on Saturday to “boot out” Boris Johnson from Downing Street.
Speaking to the PA news agency before a campaigning session in the Easterhouse area of the city, Mr Sarwar said the Prime Minister – who on Monday survived a confidence vote, although 148 Tory MPs voted against him – was a “disaster”.
“I think we have to be in a perpetual campaigning mode because I don’t think we can underestimate the damage that Boris Johnson has done to our country,” Mr Sarwar said.
“He is a disaster as Prime Minister, but he’s also a gift for those that seek to break up the United Kingdom – he’s a gift with the SNP, he is a disaster for our country.
“So we need to be ready for whenever that election comes.
After the vote, Mr Johnson ruled out an early election, meaning the next Westminster poll could be as far away as January 2025.
The Labour leader, who oversaw a local council election in Scotland where the party increased its councillor tally and vote share, said it would have to “win the argument” that the only way to remove Boris Johnson was to vote Labour, as well as show the positives of his party in government at Westminster.
When asked if the next campaign could focus more on personalities as opposed to policy – with Labour’s opening salvo focusing on the Prime Minister’s actions rather than government policy – Mr Sarwar said the party would have to adopt a “twin track” approach.
“One is, it’s very clear that we have in Boris Johnson, a leader that is a disaster in terms of the office of Prime Minister, someone who is a charlatan, a cheat, a liar, someone who does not have the moral compass to hold that position and that office and therefore we need to boot him out,” he said.
He added: “But look, I don’t want to just be about booting out Boris Johnson, we also have to demonstrate over the coming weeks and months the difference that Labour would make in power, both in terms of how we push democracy out into our communities, but also how we make the social and economic change we need in our country, to transform our country, and only Labour can do that.”
The priority in any future election, Mr Sarwar said, would “first and foremost” have to be on the cost-of-living crisis, followed by investment in public services and improving the economy to “create jobs for the future”.
A Scottish Tory spokesperson said: “Anas Sarwar talks about gifts to the SNP, but it is his Labour Party who said they would lock the SNP out of town halls during the council elections.
“Then they did a coalition deal to put the SNP into power in Dumfries and Galloway.
“In the next General Election, pro-UK voters won’t believe a word what Anas Sarwar says. They know that if Labour get a whiff of power, they will do a deal with the SNP.”
SNP’s deputy Westminster leader Kirsten Oswald said: “With Labour and the Tories cosying up across Scotland following the local elections in Scotland and being the handmaidens of the Tory government’s extreme Brexit, it’s beyond any doubt that only the SNP is holding the Tories in Westminster to account.
“It’s clear that people in Scotland are being forced to pay a heavy price for the cost of living with Westminster – with Tory austerity, the regressive NI hike, cuts to Universal Credit, and Brexit piling on the pressure."
Anas Sarwar brands Boris Johnson as a 'criminal prime minister'
Anas Sarwar has branded Boris Johnson as a “criminal prime minister” as he insisted his party is aiming to kick the Conservatives out of power.
The Scottish Labour leader spoke as he launched a ‘Boot out Boris’ campaign day across Scotland on Saturday.
And he pledged that it is “not enough” to only oppose Johnson, outlining the need to replace him and his government at Westminster.
It comes after Conservative MPs voted to keep the Prime Minister in power at a meeting of the 1922 Committee.
Johnson won the backing of 211 of his MPs, but as many as 148 voted to say they did not have confidence in him.
“The facts are clear – now that Tory MPs have bottled it and failed to remove Boris Johnson from Downing Street, it’s on us the people to do it at the next general election,” said Sarwar.
“It’s not enough to just oppose this criminal prime minister – we must replace him and his party too. Only Labour can do that.
It comes after Conservative MPs voted to keep the Prime Minister in power at a meeting of the 1922 Committee.
Johnson won the backing of 211 of his MPs, but as many as 148 voted to say they did not have confidence in him.
“The facts are clear – now that Tory MPs have bottled it and failed to remove Boris Johnson from Downing Street, it’s on us the people to do it at the next general election,” said Sarwar.
“It’s not enough to just oppose this criminal prime minister – we must replace him and his party too. Only Labour can do that.
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“The next electoral contest in Scotland will be a general election. This is our chance for change and Scottish Labour is not wasting any time in preparing to kick the Tories out of power and elect a Labour Government.”
Sarwar also acknowledged the impact of the cost-of-living crisis, with prices rising across the country.
“With the cost-of-living crisis biting, the people of Scotland can feel consequences of two failing governments with the wrong priorities,” he continued.
“Rather than seeking to divide Scotland again, we are building a campaign to unite people across our country to get honesty, decency, integrity back into our politics and to elect a government that is on your side.
“Join the campaign to boot out Boris and let’s build a more positive future together.”
A Scottish Conservative spokesman hit back at Sarwar, and suggested that Labour would seek to strike a deal with the SNP in a future general election.
“Anas Sarwar talks about honesty and integrity in politics, but his party have betrayed pro-UK voters,” they said
Boris Johnson is “on probation” and could still be removed from office if he fails to win back the trust of Tory MPs, a former minister has said.
Lord Duncan, who served in various ministerial posts under Theresa May and Boris Johnson after entering the House of Lords in 2017, said the prime minister “has a task to do” after 148 of his MPs voted in favour of his removal in a confidence vote last Monday. He admitted that the chances of the prime minister continuing in his role in the long term were “slim”.
The prime minister won the vote, which was called after 54 MPs submitted letters of no confidence to the chair of the backbench 1922 Committee following the release of the Sue Gray report, which detailed a number of gatherings in Downing Street during the pandemic, one of which resulted in police fines being issued to Mr Johnson, his wife, and chancellor Rishi Sunak.
If he fails that probation, the Tory party will do what it always does with leaders who are not delivering – they will remove him.”
When asked if the prime minister had been left a “lame duck” as a result of Monday’s vote, the former MEP said: “He probably is in troubled waters.
“If you can make people, almost, forget what has happened over the last few months, then he has a slim chance of carrying on, but I would have thought that would be very slim.”
The Conservative Party, Lord Duncan said, is “quite mercenary” when it comes to removing party leaders it deems no longer up to the job.
“Over the past 20 years, when a leader has not been able to do what they were meant to do, the Tory party don’t stab them in the back – they stab them in the face,” he said. “If they’re not delivering, they are removed.”
The Conservative peer also defended the decision of Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross to reverse course once more and vote for the removal of the prime minister.
Mr Ross, who initially supported Boris Johnson’s premiership, called for the prime minister’s resignation after reports of Downing Street parties surfaced, and was among those who submitted letters to the chair of the 1922 Committee.
Douglas Ross and all but two of his MPs voted against the prime minister last Monday
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But when Russia invaded Ukraine, Mr Ross rescinded his letter and supported the prime minister’s position, stating the need for stability at the top of government at a time of war, before voting along with all but two of his Scottish MPs to remove the prime minister in last Monday’s vote.
“The important thing is that Douglas Ross got it right when it mattered,” Lord Duncan said. “When it mattered, he cast a vote for what he deemed to be right. He did so against the prime minister – the leader of a party he has belonged to for many years. That itself is a good sign.”
Lord Duncan’s comments come as the former head of communications for the Scottish Tories, Andy Maciver, called for the Scottish party to distance itself from the UK party and set up a separate group.
“A political party which has no relationship to the Tory party, formal or informal, and has no involvement in elections to Westminster,” he wrote in The Herald on Sunday.
“A political party which is unimpeachably Scottish. A political party which, in time, could play a role in unsticking Scottish politics, normalising us and, dare I say, Europeanising our political party structures.
“A new political party is not a ready meal. It needs to be prepared and then cooked, and it needs a good amount of resting time before it is ready to be enjoyed.
“However, since the alternative is not eating at all, the choice should be fairly clear.”
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