Boris Johnson eviscerates Labour’s Brexit reversal plan – ‘we’ll fight | Politics | News
Boris Johnson has criticized Keir Starmer’s plan to reverse Brexit, saying MPs will be “walking into machine gun fire” if they attempt to overturn the 2016 referendum.
The former Prime Minister argued in a Daily Mail column that a growing number of Labor MPs want Starmer gone as the party’s approval rating falls to a record low of 14%.
Boris explains that Labor MPs want Starmer to make a major U-turn by turning Labor into the pro-EU party. The problem they face is that they do not believe Starmer is the right man to lead the Rejoin campaign; partly, but not exclusively, because they do not believe how he swore at the last election that he would not try to reverse Brexit.
“If Labor MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be marching into machine gun fire – and if that’s the fight they want, go for it! But they should heed my warning before things get bloody…” Boris wrote MailOnline.
This week the House of Commons voted to open talks with the European Union on creating a new customs union with the UK; it was a move that could usher in a reversal of Brexit. This statement came after Labor Party Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said it would be better for the UK to rejoin the customs union from which it left the EU as part of its exit.
Most Labor MPs abstained from the vote in the House of Commons, but 13 voted in favor of the UK negotiating with the EU, while only three voted against. A total of 100 MPs voted in favor, including Liberal Democrat, Green and SNP MPs.
“He may try to cover up the damage Labor has done to Britain by (falsely) claiming it was thanks to the 2016 vote,” Boris wrote. He pointed out discredited promises, unnecessary tax increases, “many accusations of lies” and Wes Streeting’s failure to fix the NHS.
Boris, who led the Leave campaign, stressed that Britain was not suffering the post-Brexit disaster some Remainers predicted. On the contrary, “we grew faster than Germany and many other EU countries.”
The Conservative politician suggested Britain should try to attract global investors rather than raise taxes and crack down on wealth creators so harshly that they leave the country.
He recently criticized Labour’s decision to rescind its Rwanda policy and was shocked when tens of thousands of people continued to cross the canal.
