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The view from outside – the week in review 23-28 April 2019

Matrix’s Legal Support Service will provide The view from outside, a weekly look at the UK’s relationship with the outside world.

By Legal Support Service · On April 29, 2019

Evaluation of UK’s international obligations

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who sparked global youth movement, has condemned the UK’s climate stance in a speech to MPs, hitting out at airport expansion and support for fossil fuels.

UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the EU

Tom Watson has argued that Labour will never defeat Nigel Farage if it continues to “sit on the fence” over Brexit and that Labour needs to give much clearer and more enthusiastic backing to another referendum. Meanwhile cross-party Brexit talks between Government ministers and Labour are due to resume.

According to individuals with knowledge of the company’s operations and internal documents, a network of secretive pro-Brexit Facebook campaigns overseen by Sir Lynton Crosby’s company CTF Partners was part of a wider campaign to undermine Theresa May and push Britain towards a hard Brexit.

Nigel Evans, a senior member of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers has called for Theresa May to step down immediately – suggesting the influential group could set a timetable for her departure.

Theresa May is preparing to give MPs a vote on the withdrawal and implementation bill in the next 10 days, as negotiations with Labour continue. Meanwhile the prime minister is facing a backlash from Conservative activists, and Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, has told her she must spell out her departure plans or face a change in Conservative Party rules that would make it easier to remove her. However, Theresa May survived the attempt to change Tory party rules to make it possible to oust her within weeks.

Financial Times analysis has stated that anti-Brexit parties’ failure to agree a unified slate of candidates to fight the European elections could cost them half of the seats they would have won as a single group.

Theresa May has dropped a plan for a new Brexit vote before the local elections as hopes of an accord with Labour faded.

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