The day’s political developments as they happen, including Tory leadership and Theresa May’s final cabinet meeting as PM
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Green MEP Philippe Lamberts, a member of the European Parliament’s Brexit steering group, said if Boris Johnson wins the Tory leadership race he “will be confronting the exact same situation as Theresa May”.
The Belgian MEP told the Today programme:
Boris Johnson is known to want many things and often contradictory things like having your cake and eating it, he is on record saying that.
So indeed he wants good relations with the European Union and he wants to be able to cut off all ties and not have the Irish backstop and all the rest of it.
Nobody is aiming for no-deal, that is not the strategy.
We want a better deal, parliament wants a better deal, and Boris Johnson has made clear throughout that he wants a better deal.
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