'I don't want Brits taken to EU countries!' JHB DISMANTLES Remainer's pro-ECJ argument
BREXITEER Julia Hartley-Brewer dismantled security expert Anthony Glees' argument in favour of the UK keeping the European Arrest Warrant security policy post-Brexit.
Speaking on TalkRadio, Professor Glees argued giving up the European Arrest Warrant and the Schengen data sharing services post-Brexit would put the UK in serious trouble.
But the radio host hit back at the Remainer and said: “Anthony, hang on a minute, we don’t want to give up the sharing of data.
“I want to get rid of the European Arrest Warrant because I don’t want Brits being taken abroad to countries in the EU who have a less than shaky grasp of basic principles of justice - call me old-fashioned.
“If France and everyone want to lose our terror information more fool them because they’ll suffer more than we will.
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“We get more information asked than the other way around.”
France is allegedly attempting to block the UK’s access to a crucial criminal DNA database after Brexit, which helped authorities identify the terrorists responsible for the Paris 2015 attack.
British ministers have said there is a “clear national interest” in the UK keeping access to the Prum Convention.
The system allows countries to share information such as DNA, fingerprints, and vehicle registration details in the pursuit of criminals.
We get more information asked than the other way around
But according to one government figure, France is being “awkward” in the negotiations.
Speaking to the Times, the government source said: “Normally France is quite helpful when it comes to security co-operation, but on this they are being awkward.”
Other countries such as Germany are apparently open to the idea of Britain continuing access to the database.
Tory MP Amber Rudd warned that a post-Brexit security deal is in the interests of both Britain and the EU as she took the savage dig at Brussels.
Speaking on LBC, Ms Rudd said: “There are a number of parts of the security system which are within the European Union, like Prum, like Sis (Second Generation Schengen Information System), like Europol and the European arrest warrant, which are important to keep people safe.
“What the UK is proposing is a third party treaty which engages with the EU and leaves in place all those protections and allows us to have the same level.
“But I think we can do that. I have heard that report from France which is very unwelcome.
“The fact is the UK is one of the biggest contributors to keeping people safe. We are not the sort of passive recipient of this information. We contribute to it and we help shape it to make it safe.”