'Just get on with it!' Sunday Express Political Editor DEMANDS progress on Brexit talks
SUNDAY EXPRESS Political Editor Camilla Tominey urged the EU to “stop digging in their heels” and get on Brexit negotiations during a BBC Question Time debate.
'Get on with it' Sunday Express political editor demands Brexit progress
Camilla Tominey insisted that readers on “both sides of the demographic divide” just want to see progress on Brexit.
Ms Tominey said during Question Time: “Mostly, people just say ‘Will you get on with it? Just get on with Brexit, stop posturing, stop fighting between yourselves’.”
Ms Tominey then slammed claims of a parliamentary divide over Brexit. She said: “The notion of it being a minority as well - overwhelmingly in parliament, people voted to have the referendum in the first place.
“Overwhelmingly in parliament, people voted to trigger Article 50.”
But Labour's shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti slammed Mr Tomineys claims and insisted the Government is responsible for the Brexit “deadlock”.
Ms Tominey said: “It’s not just the Government, is it Shami? It’s also the EU. Who, despite this conciliatory offer from the Florence speech, are digging in their heels.
“Even though a deal for them is mutually beneficial. This is what’s lost in a lot of the rhetoric.”
The Political Editor then asked whether the German car industry wants to “shoot itself in their own feet” by not having a trade agreement with the UK.
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Ms Tominey then said that it would cost the German car industry alone 29,000 jobs, to which the Question Time audience clapped.
The Brexiteer said: “The Remain argument fails because everybody knows deep down that if we do get this cake and eat it scenario, we can have free trade with Europe and we can have free trade with the rest of the world.
“That is infinitely better.”
European Union leaders have postponed trade talks with Britain because there had not been enough progress on key Brexit issues - including the financial settlement, Irish border and citizens’ rights.