Brexit - Kate Green

Kate’s blog: I won’t allow a petulant, privileged Prime Minister to trample over the security and prosperity of my constituents

I am sitting on the train writing this on Thursday evening, after a week in which we have well and truly seen just how far Boris Johnson will go to force through his hardline Brexit. He tried with last Saturday’s emergency sitting, and lost a vote when parliament insisted that…

Brexit update 17 October 2019

This morning we learnt the Prime Minister has agreed a new deal with the EU. It’s a new Withdrawal Agreement (the legal terms of our exit) and a new Political Declaration (the non-binding aims covering the future negotiation we’d need to have on our future trading relationship). These look like…

Kate’s blog: A week of prorogation and extreme events in parliament

Yet again, it has been a week of extreme events in parliament. Monday started with the Speaker, John Bercow, announcing he’d be stepping down on 31 October. The Tories had been threatening to stand against him in a general election (the convention is that the Speaker is usually re-elected unchallenged).…

Kate’s blog: Parliamentary Pandemonium

I’ve lost count of how many times in recent months my blogs have started with me expressing my incredulity at what’s been going on in parliament. This week is no exception. Since Monday, the prime minister has managed to lose 23 of his own MPs (including his own brother), numerous…

Kate asks questions on Home Office preparations for Brexit

Constituents will know that I have been very concerned about the impact of Brexit on children. I am particularly concerned that in the case of a no deal Brexit we will immediately cease to be part of European crime prevention networks and systems, which will put our police at a…

Kate raises concerns about EU children who are looked after by UK local authorities

Ever since the decision to leave the EU in 2016, I’ve been concerned about the impact on EU national children who live in the UK. That includes some of the most vulnerable children, who may have suffered the most appalling abuse or neglect, and are in the care of local…

Kate’s blog: Our democracy is being hijacked by an utterly unscrupulous Prime Minister

Parliament is coming to the end of its summer break – we’re due to return to Westminster next week. But the Prime Minister’s shocking decision to prorogue (suspend) parliament for 5 weeks until 14 October in a bid to force through Brexit without parliamentary scrutiny means we’ll hardly spend any…

Local Manufacturing jobs at risk from Brexit, warns Kate

Kate has warned that the prospect of a chaotic Brexit is putting skilled manufacturing jobs and millions of pounds of investment in the local economy at risk. The message came as new analysis by GMB, the union for manufacturing workers, shows that the sector employs 8,000 people in Stretford and…

Kate’s Brexit update 20 May 2019

It has been some time since my last Brexit update, as talks between Labour and the Government tried to find a way out of the Brexit impasse. Since the EU granted a six month extension to the scheduled exit date, little progress has been made, and the talks have finally…

Kate’s blog: Vote Labour in the European elections next week – to stand up for our rights in Europe and to stop the hate of Farage and Robinson

With under a week to go till the European parliamentary elections, I’ve been out and about in the constituency over the past few days, reminding people how important it is to vote. This week, the prime minister announced that parliament will vote again on her proposed Brexit deal in the…

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