UKIP's response to Theresa May's speech today.
Published Jan 17, 2017
Responding to Theresa May's speech today, UKIP Leader Paul Nuttall: "Some
of it did sound like a UKIP conference speech and the Prime Minister is now
applying some of the things that we’ve been talking about for many, many years,
so I would give her seven out of ten for this effort.
"But I am concerned that what we’re getting is some sort of slow-motion
Brexit where she is speaking about interim measures, or a transitional period,
which will only begin after April 2019. She has given no end date to these
transitional measures. I challenge the Prime Minister; let’s have this all done
and clean before the next General Election in 2020.
"Good marks for saying we are leaving the EU's Single Market and stopping
mass immigration. However, the vital issues of leaving the European Court of
Human Rights and taking back control of our fishing waters have been left out
completely and free movement of people is being offered as a carrot to the EU
for the transitional period which has no defined end, so we could end up with no
change on that for a decade or more.
"As Home Secretary, Theresa May always talked tough but failed to
deliver. I challenge her to change the habit of a political lifetime and
actually deliver this time. And I mean on time and in
full."
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