Matthew Taylor

Sunday shows round-up: John Major – UK may need ‘a national government’

Emily Thornberry – May is ‘out of control’
It is now two days since the UK was originally supposed to leave the EU, but with the government’s withdrawal agreement being defeated in parliament for a third time, events look more uncertain than ever before. Sophy Ridge was joined by the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, who wasted little time in blasting the Prime Minister’s approach to Brexit:

ET: She’s been taking the mickey… Even with just days to go she’s still saying ‘It’s my deal or no deal’, and that is not meaningful. That is not democracy. That is Theresa May stamping her feet and saying ‘I want this! No one else is allowed to do anything else’.

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