Chequers plan ‘is right one for now’
employed around 5,500 staff when the bank went bust in 2008, but redundancies left 500 staff to assist administrator PwC.
A decade later just a handful remain in Canary Wharf. FOREIGN Secretary Jeremy Hunt is facing calls to intervene in the case of a British former soldier sentenced to jail in Turkey after fighting the Islamic State terror group.
Joe Robinson, 25, was sentenced to seven-and-ahalf years’ imprisonment after being accused of fighting alongside the People’s Protection Units of Syrian Kurdistan (YPG), which the Turkish state considers a terrorist organisation.
The YPG is not banned in the UK and Robinson, from Accrington, Lancashire, said he only spent a month with them in Syria while providing THERESA MAY’S Brexit plan is the “right one for now” and could be altered by a future prime minster, Michael Gove has said.
The Environment Secretary admitted the Chequers proposals had forced him to compromise on some of his beliefs, but insisted the most important issue now was ensuring Britain leaves the European Union in “good order”.
Mrs May’s Brexit blueprint sparked the resignations of Boris Johnson and David Davis, and has infuriated hardline Brexiteers.
Asked if the plan would be permanent, Mr Gove told BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show: “Yes, but there’s one critical thing, a future prime minister could always choose to alter the relationship between Britain and the European Union.
“But the Chequers approach is the right one for now because we have got to make sure that we respect that vote and take advantage of the opportunities of being outside the European Union.”
Mr Gove said the responsibility was now on the European Union to compromise “because we’ve shown flexibility”. medical support to civilians. His Bulgarian fiancee Mira Rojkan is among those to call on Mr Hunt to apply pressure on Turkey to rethink its treatment of the veteran, who is on bail in Kusadasi awaiting an appeal.
Rojkan, a law student in Leeds, was arrested alongside Robinson while they were on a
“I’ve compromised,” he added. “I’ve been quite clear that some of the things that I argued for in the referendum passionately, as a result of Chequers I have to qualify one or two of my views. I have to acknowledge the parliamentary arithmetic.
“I believe the critical thing is making sure we leave in good order with a deal which safeguards the referendum mandate.”
Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan has called for voters to have the final say on what happens next.
In an article for the Observer, he wrote: “This means a public vote on any Brexit deal obtained by the Government, or a vote on a no-deal Brexit if one is not secured, alongside the option of staying in the EU.” family holiday last year. The 23-year-old was given a suspended prison sentence for supposedly engaging in terrorist propaganda.
“The UK should stop saying they can’t do it, we know they can,” she said. “He (Mr Hunt) needs to get in touch with the Turkish authorities on a diplomatic level.”
But shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner said a fresh referendum would give Mrs May a lifeline.
He said: “Calling for a second referendum is really giving her a lifeline because then she can say ‘Oh, if I can’t get it through Parliament I’ll go back to the people.’”
Brexiteers are launching a “chuck Chequers” campaign with a series of rallies and newspaper advertisements.
Conservatives including David Davis and Jacob Rees-Mogg, former Ukip leader Nigel Farage and Labour’s Kate Hoey are expected to attend the Leave Means Leave events. The group has also taken out adverts in 30 regional newspapers that will be published tomorrow dismissing Mrs May’s Brexit blueprint as the “same old, same old”.
A series of rallies will begin in Bolton on Saturday followed by Birmingham, Torquay, Bournemouth, Gateshead and Harrogate.
Richard Tice, Leave Means Leave vicechairman, said: “We have relaunched the Leave campaign and we will stop at nothing to ensure the Prime Minister chucks Chequers and delivers Brexit in its entirety.”