The Labour Party can give a “cast iron guarantee” that it will not seek to re-join the EU if it is elected, according to shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh.
Responding to a question during PMQs Live on GB News, she said: “Yes, I can give that cast iron guarantee. We have been very clear we want no reruns of the Brexit referendum.
“We will not be seeking membership of the European Union, but we need to make Brexit work and that's the Labour Party's plan.
“We've set out a number of agreements that we would like to make with the EU in order to ease trade and reduce some of the red tape around trade that's hurting our economy at the moment.”
Speaking during a discussion with Gloria De Piero and Cristopher Hope, she added: “There's certain things, like we've just seen about power-sharing re-instated today with Northern Ireland.
“But the reason that's been down for so long is because there hasn't been this agreement with the European Union over how that should work.
“We need to speed that up. We need to see these improvements. We need to see Brexit work for ordinary people and for the people who voted for it.”
For the Conservatives, Paul Holmes, an aide to Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron, said: “The problem during the referendum is that so many people were being told that they're wrong and they had motivations which weren't there.
“I voted leave because I wanted Britain to run its own country. I wanted us to make our own laws and I wanted us to make the success of it.
“It will take a long time, but I would argue they're already seeing some of the benefits of that including increased health spending that we got from being able to leave the European Union.”
He added: “Immigration is coming down. The Prime Minister has made immigration his number one priority but what we've seen is a reduction in the number of illegal migrants coming across the channel.
“We've brought in measures that are coming into effect in March which will see 300,000 fewer people coming in than they did last year.”
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