'You're NOT helping!' Kay Burley SLAMS Keir Starmer for 'unhelpful' Labour Brexit strategy
SHADOW Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer was called out for his party's "unhelpful" opposition to Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy in a furious clash on live TV.
Sky News host Kay Burley called out the Shadow Brexit Secretary and the Labour Party for affecting the Government's attempts to present a "united front" during Brexit talks with the European Union.
Ms Burley said: "You’re not helping though, are you? As a party, you’re not helping.
"We need to share a united front to the rest of Europe and it doesn’t look like that’s what the opposition is doing for the Prime Minister."
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But Sir Keir defended his party position on Brexit, claiming Labour had to "challenge" the Government to see negotiations with Brussels "succeed."
He told the Sky News presenter: "We got to find a way. The role of the opposition here is obviously to challenge the government and we very much need to in light of what’s happened in the last few days.
"We also have to act in the national interest, for our constituents and for our country and for our children. We need these negotiations to succeed."
Sir Keir also hit out at Prime Minister Theresa May for planning to sign a special deal on Northern Ireland with the EU without taking into considerations possible demands on a similar arrangement for Scotland or Wales.
You’re not helping though, are you? As a party, you’re not helping.
He said: "Somebody must have whispered in the Prime Minister’s ear over the weekend and into Monday ‘look, you need to be aware that the moment we unveil something like this, it is inevitable that people in Scotland and in Wales and other places are gonna go: we want to go down the same route.’
"So you might want to think twice before you go down that route and have a better UK-wide response. The lack of thought about the secondary questions that lie behind this is staggering. That’s why it’s so embarrassing."
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) scuppered the imminent deal between Theresa May, Dublin and the EU, which would have allowed Brexit talks to progress to trade.
They said any agreement between the DUP and Mrs May, who yesterday proposed aligning Northern Ireland with the Republic rather than the rest of the UK, was “far away”.
Mrs May is bound to the DUP’s wishes as the party props up the Tories in Westminster.
