The Chancellor should be pressing for is Labour’s red card proposal - McDonnell
John McDonnell MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, commenting on George Osborne’s visit to Berlin to meet with business leaders, said:
“Following last week’s humiliation in Parliament on tax credits George Osborne appears to have run off to Berlin to indulge in a pretence that this Government has any sway in Europe.
“This trip is a meaningless publicity stunt as he is demanding powers of veto that we already have. These conditions are all straw men that the Chancellor wants to then knock down and claim victory to a home audience.
“The UK already has an effective veto over any ‘ever closer union’. What he should be pressing for is Labour’s red card proposal so that if enough national parliaments say so, they can stop European legislation they don’t agree with.
“He should be sticking up for steel workers in the UK and those people in our country who are not paid a living wage, and who are about to be hit by £1,300 a year on average by his tax credits cuts.“
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