'Mandated to LEAVE' Ukip leader destroys Remainer’s Brexit claims in LBC takedown
PAUL NUTTALL has slapped down a prominent Remain campaigner for claiming the British people did not vote to leave the single market on June 23.
Paul Nuttall slams Chuka Umunna over what Brexit means
The new Ukip leader went head to head with Labour’s Chuka Umunna on LBC on Monday after the pro-EU politician insisted the Theresa May’s Government does not have a mandate to take Britain out of the single market.
Appearing on Nick Ferrari’s show, Mr Umunna insisted the EU referendum result was just to determine whether or not the UK should abandon the red-tape obsessed bloc and not a judgment on how it should exit.
The Labour Party politician said: “The result of the referendum was just to determine whether we leave the European Union or not.
“The way in which we leave and the kind of exit that we have, there was no judgment given by the people on that.”
New Ukip leader Paul Nuttall went head to head with Labour’s Chuka Umunna on Monday
Mr Umunna added the people had not voted to lose their jobs as a result of leaving the EU.
He said: “In terms of acting in a way which will lead to people losing their jobs, us not having good trade deals that enable British businesses and manufacturers to be able to continue thriving, the idea people thought ‘we’ll just put that in the bind’, there was no mandate for that.”
Appearing almost amused with the claims leaving the bloc would plunge the UK into chaos, the newly elected Ukip leader snapped that suggesting Britons had not known what they voted for was disingenuous.
Taking the Europhile to task, Mr Nuttall said: “We could end up having a half Brexit and that is not what people voted for.
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“The prime minister at the time, David Cameron, the chancellor George Osborne, and indeed the foreign secretary at the time Philip Hammond and everyone on Vote Leave made it perfectly clear that we were voting to leave the European Union and we were voting to leave the single market.
“To pretend now that people somehow didn’t know what they were voting for on June 23 is disingenuous.”
Mr Nuttall’s takedown of the Labour MP came as his deputy leader roasted Lib Dem MP Tom Brake for claiming Britons were “too thick” to understand what they voted for in the EU referendum.
Angrily responded to the Lib Dem's assertions, Peter Whittle said: “That is completely outrageous.
Mr Nuttall dismissed the claims Britons had not know what they voted for as disingenuous
“What you are basically saying is people are too thick to actually understand what they are being asked.
“People knew exactly what they were voting for, they knew exactly that meant coming out of the EU, control of our borders and our own sovereignty.
“You talk about Parliamentary sovereignty Tom, you didn’t care about that for years… when 70 per cent of our laws were made by the EU.”
On Monday the largest ever panel of justices were convened to listen to the Government as it appeals the decision of the High Court that Article 50 cannot be triggered without a Parliamentary vote.