BBC: Theresa May says it's Chequers or no deal

17 September 2018

Theresa May has told the BBC that MPs will have a choice between her proposed deal with the EU - or no deal at all.

She was also critical of a plan by Brexiteers to resolve the Irish border issue, saying it would create a "hard border 20km inside Ireland".

The prime minister did admit that under "no-deal there would be some short-term disruption".

Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer said no-deal would be "catastrophic" and people were "too casual about it".

He told Panorama: "It's not viable. It's rhetoric, not reality, and it can't be allowed to happen."

But Mrs May said it was the government's job to "make sure we make a success of no-deal, just as we make a success of getting a good deal." [...]

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