[obpress] NEWS FROM OPEN BRITAIN: Doughty - "Foreign Secretary's love for himself comes first, as always"

From: Adrian McMenamin <adrian.mcmenamin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Adrian McMenamin <adrian.mcmenamin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 09:55:46 +0000

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, WEDNESDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2018

Doughty – “Foreign Secretary’s love for himself comes first, as always”

The Cabinet’s Brexit negotiations sub-committee meets this morning to begin two
crucial days of talks on forming a UK negotiating mandate.

Yet overnight Boris Johnson has briefed the press on his plans to set out his
own vision of a post-Brexit Britain: one very far away from pledges given when
the government sought to secure a first phase agreement with the EU before
Christmas. Then ministers pledged close alignment with the EU so as to avoid a
hard border in Ireland. Today the foreign secretary is briefing he wants
deregulation and no alignment.

Commenting, Stephen Doughty MP, leading supporter of the Open Britain campaign,
said:
“Once again Cabinet ministers are assembling for a meeting under the shadow of
Boris Johnson’s ego, with the Foreign Secretary determined to publicly seduce
the hard core of anti-Europeans in the Conservative Party in a Valentine’s Day
speech.
“As always, the Foreign Secretary’s love for himself, his career and his
personal advancement has trumped everything else. It is no surprise that, just
as the Cabinet meet to discuss a negotiating mandate for final status talks,
Boris Johnson has let it be known he will make a speech freelancing on the
issues.
“Britain’s national interest always comes second to the personal interests of
Brextremists like Boris Johnson.”
/ends
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[obpress] NEWS FROM OPEN BRITAIN: Doughty - "Foreign Secretary's love for himself comes first, as always"

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