Britain’s Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, has said that British MPs are likely to reject the deal unless an agreement on future trade with the EU has also been secured.
David Davis said on Wednesday that British Prime Minister Theresa May will have the “hardest time” convincing the House of Commons to sign up to the £39 billion-plus “divorce bill” if only few details of the long-term trade deal are discussed.
“It has to be substantive from a British parliament point of view,” Davis told MPs on the Brexit committee. “The hardest time I will have in October is people saying, ‘what have we got for this?.’”
He pointed out that the House of Commons will also be “voting for a bill of £39 billion”, adding, “It will want to know what it is getting in exchange.
Davis also insisted that there would not be a repeat of a scandal involving black Caribbean immigrants known as the Windrush scandal, with the…