“Labour have no idea what they want,” a Conservative party spokesman said in a statement. “They have no vision for what Britain should look like outside the E.U.”Those who oppose Brexit altogether were hardly more welcoming, saying Labour’s “transitional period” was nothing more than a diversionary stalling tactic. “This is all spin and no principle,” the Liberal Democrats, the party that has championed remaining in the European Union, said in a statement. Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s coordinator on Britain’s exit from the European Union, called that idea “a fantasy” when the government floated a version of it this month. It means we would abide by the common rules of both.”Beyond this transition period, he wrote, Labour would seek “a strong and lasting new relationship with the E.U.

Source: New York Times August 27, 2017 19:30 UTC