Sunday shows round-up: May’s Brexit deal and 10-year NHS plan

Andrew Marr Show

Theresa May:

• On the meaningful vote going ahead: “Yes. We are going to hold the vote.” 15th or 14th January? “That sort of timing, yes.”
• On progress with the EU, May is “still seeking assurances”.
• On putting her deal to another Commons vote, May did not rule it out. If the deal is voted down this month: “We’re going to be in unchartered territory.”
• On letting “the search for the perfect become the enemy of the good”, May warned there could be no Brexit.
• On a fresh referendum: “In my view there should not be a second Brexit referendum.”
• On elections and her leadership: “I’m not going to call a snap election, and I’m not going to be leading the party into the 2022 general election.”

“I have been clear with my colleagues… Two things: One, I am not going to call a snap election, and secondly I am not going to be leading the party in to the 2022 general election” Theresa May tells #marrhttps://t.co/RVlA6DlwPF pic.twitter.com/pP0nNViH16

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 6, 2019

Jonathan Ashworth, Shadow Health Secretary and Labour MP for Leicester South:

• On the government’s 10-year NHS plan: “People are waiting longer under this Tory government because the Tories have been running down the NHS for nine years, starving it of cash, cutting it back, privatising elements of it, failing to get the staff we need… It doesn’t need 10 more years of the Tories.”
• On Brexit: “We’re not enabling Brexit. We had a referendum… That’s the way the country voted.”
• On May’s deal: “We are committed to voting against Theresa May’s Brexit deal. Goodness knows whether we’ll actually have a vote on it next week given the speculation in the newspapers again. It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s delayed.”
• On another deal: “If that’s voted down, it’s incumbent on the government to come forward with alternative proposals and try to renegotiate.”

“We are committed to voting against Theresa May’s #Brexit deal. Goodness knows whether we’ll actually have a vote on it next week given the speculation in the newspapers again” – Labour’s Jon Ashworth says https://t.co/e6R2HdKpIT #marr pic.twitter.com/LDlUzUSFAg

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 6, 2019

Ridge on Sunday

Chuka Umunna, Labour MP for Streatham and People’s Vote campaigner:

• On getting a fresh EU referendum: “I am not going to be disingenuous and pretend that we have the numbers for a People’s Vote.”
• On the meaningful vote going ahead: “If she doesn’t hold that vote, she arguably will have misled the House of Commons and there will be moves on a cross-party basis from the backbenches to ensure that the will of the House is tested.”
• On the ballot paper for another referendum: Remain, plus “I do think that you have to have an option on that ballot paper that would please the likes of Peter Bone, that is a hard Brexit”, i.e. no deal. “I would say two or three [options]. I am pretty open minded about it.”
• On May’s deal being put to a Commons vote several times: “I have consulted with the Clerks of the House of Commons on this – you cannot simply bring the same motion again and again and again… Even if you sought say to bring a different motion through changing one word, if in substance it is the same thing, under the rules of the House of Commons, you can’t just keep bringing it again and again and again.”

“The People’s Vote is your route to stop our country crashing out of the EU in a very disastrous way” – @ChukaUmunna tells #Ridge he is “open-minded” about whether a second referendum would have 2 or 3 options.

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— Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) January 6, 2019

Barry Gardiner, Shadow International Trade Secretary and Labour MP for Brent North:

• On the government’s 10-year NHS plan: “I would have more confidence in their 10-year plan if the five-year plan that they announced in 2014 had actually been delivered on.”
• On an election: “That is the quickest way of getting a people’s vote – you can have a general election in four and a half weeks.”
• On a fresh referendum: “It is the responsibility of government to try and unite the country, not to divide it.”
• On Labour’s preferred Brexit outcome: “If we as a new incoming Labour government were to go to Europe without [May’s] red lines, we know that we could get a different, better deal and that’s what we want to try and achieve.”
• On being able to strike trade deals as a member of a customs union: “We would have a customs union just like there is in Mercosur in South America where each individual sovereign nation is able to determine whether a trade agreement that they conclude jointly with other countries should go ahead or not.”

“What’s your feeling on a second referendum? Would you like to see one?” – Sophy #Ridge asks @BarryGardiner about the People’s Vote, discussed by @ChukaUmunna earlier.

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— Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) January 6, 2019

Pienaar’s Politics

Emily Thornberry, Shadow Foreign Secretary and Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury:

• On a fresh referendum: “It’s our policy that we go for a general election.” But Thornberry also said that if May were replaced by a hard Tory Brexiteer intent on leaving the EU without a deal, Labour would back another referendum.
• On ‘people’s vote’ supporters: “Some people within the People’s Vote movement seem to think that their purpose is to slap the Labour Party around.”
• On a vote of no confidence in the government: “We want to do things that are effective… We will be doing it when we expect to win it.”