Richard Leonard said the deal agreed by the UK Government with the EU was “half-baked” and signalled Scottish Labour would vote against giving consent to the agreement.
Leonard also took a different position to UK Labour recently when he backed an extension to the Brexit process.The SNP, Scottish Greens and Scottish Liberal Democrats are also expected to refuse consent to the Brexit trade deal in Wednesday’s vote, meaning Holyrood is likely to withhold its approval.Leonard said: “Boris Johnson promised more than a year ago that he would ‘get Brexit done’, and that his deal was ‘oven ready’ – yet his shambolic Government is racing to ratify its half-baked Brexit deal the day before the end of the transition period.“There is no co-production.
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