Theresa May has been given a one-month deadline to finally end the secrecy surrounding her Brexit strategy, a hard-hitting report by MPs revealed today.
Crucial issues including membership of the EU’s single market and customs union – and plans for a “transitional deal” – must be revealed by the middle of February, they say.
The Prime Minister is also told to guarantee her promised Brexit plan is a fully fleshed-out White Paper, rather than a rumoured brief note.
And she is warned of the stark “cliff edge” danger to businesses if Britain crashes out of the EU with no deal at all, in 2019 – a scenario favoured by some hardline Tory MPs.
It would be “extremely disruptive” and could lead to some firms “re-locating out of the UK or investing elsewhere in future”, the report says.
It is the first issued by the Commons’ new cross-party Brexit Select Committee, whose members include prominent Tory Leave supporters Michael Gove, Dominic Raab and Peter Lilley.
The committee also demands that Parliament is granted a vote on the final Brexit deal – after the Prime Minister hinted she would deny one.
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