Sajid Javid: No-deal UK ‘will still be a very safe country’
This morning Andrew Marr was joined by the Home Secretary Sajid Javid. With the possibility of a no-deal Brexit on the horizon, the interview turned to the implications that could have for the UK’s national security. When Marr asked if security could be diminished, Javid avoided a direct answer, repeatedly telling Marr that ‘we will still be a very safe country’:
#Marr: If we leave with a no deal #Brexit, will things get worse for security?
Home Secretary Sajid Javid: “We will still be a very safe country”https://t.co/QVithizp1U pic.twitter.com/zu35kC3H8l
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) February 3, 2019
SJ: There will be a change in capability, and there are capabilities that I’d want to keep… but they require cooperation with the EU, and I have to proceed on the basis that in a ‘no-deal scenario’ the EU will no longer allow us access to those capabilities… Most of these capabilities began in 2015.
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