国际英语资讯:Brexit issues dominate 2nd day of Labour Partys annual conference_时事

国际英语资讯:Brexit issues dominate 2nd day of Labour Partys annual conference

Labour, he said respects the result of last year's referendum which voted in favor of leaving the EU.

Starmer said May's keynote speech in Florence last week when she confirmed there would be a post-Brexit transitional period of two years, had delayed a "cliff edge" Brexit.

"Let's not be fooled by what the prime minister said in Florence. She still insists, in spite of all the warnings, that no deal is a viable option."

Glenis Wilmott, chair of Labour's NEC, who also serves as an MEP in the European Parliament, agreed with Starmer's message, saying "no deal is not better than a bad deal. Our country will become poorer; jobs will be lost; whole sectors of the economy will grind to a halt."

In the big keynote speech of the day, the shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said a Labour government would renationalize the main utility companies as well as railways, by taking them back into public ownership. They were privatized by the Conservative Party in the 1980s.

McDonnell's pledge was later attacked by Carolyn Fairbairn, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry.

She said: "McDonnell's vision of massive state intervention was the wrong plan at the wrong time. It raises a warning flag over the British economy at a critical time for our country's future.

"Forced nationalization of large parts of British industry will send investors running for the hills, and puts misplaced nostalgia ahead of progressive vision. The CBI looks forward to urgent discussion with the Labour leadership to find better solutions to the shared challenges."