Labour’s shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has said his party would work with Conservative MPs to block any prospect of a “no deal” Brexit, saying there was no majority in parliament for crashing out of the EU. McDonnell said Labour was not prepared to consider the prospect of leaving the EU without a negotiated settlement. I don’t think there is a majority in parliament for no deal,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. I think the consensus would be against it because no deal is so disastrous.”Starmer said he was concerned about the “casual talk on no deal” by Conservative backbenchers. “It means no deal on trade, that means huge tariffs, it means no deal in Northern Ireland as to the border, that means a hard border if we’ve not had agreement,” he said.

Source: The Guardian October 15, 2017 10:35 UTC