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Daisy Cooper urges Labour to drop Brexit 'red lines' in PMQs

politicsJun 17, 202620421

At Prime Minister's Questions today Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper challenged Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy to "rip up" Labour's Brexit red lines and urged the government to consider rejoining the EU single market. Cooper told MPs the world has changed since the Brexit vote, citing Putin's war, Donald Trump's return and the cost of living crisis, and argued dropping red lines would protect defence, cut living costs and boost trade. Lammy replied "Our red lines remain," while Ed Davey and the Lib Dems push Labour ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote to open talks on customs union and single market membership, a move that could reshape UK-EU trade and domestic prices.

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