Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments at they happen,including David Cameron’s speech setting out his EU negotiation demands, his letter to Donald Tusk with his proposals and the Commons statement about themCameron’s EU renegotiation speech - Snap verdictCameron’s speech and letter to Tusk - SummaryCommons statement on renegotiation - SummaryGovernment puts plans to relax Sunday trading laws on holdAfternoon summary 5.50pm GMTDWP "the home of dependable stats" on no of EU migrants in UK claiming benefits - offered as "a one off analysis". https://t.co/dyok3UvC9yTrade unionists are genuine people and it’s not just trade unions and trade unionists who object to this bill. The government has significantly failed to secure any substantial employer support for these proposals. 4.39pm GMTHeres Angus Robertson, or the SNP’s leader at Westminster,on the government’s decision to shelve the plans to liberalise the Sunday trading laws. (See 4.08pm.)I’m delighted; this is a U-turn by the government to a proposal which may well have been detrimental to workers both in Scotland and the rest of the UK. This is yet another example of the SNP operating as the effective opposition at Westminster; we’re very pleased that they’ve pulled their plans. I think it is possible to reach safeguards and guarantees to obtain certain that shop workers are not worse off. We are supporters of Sunday trading, we think Sunday trading is a dependable thing. But it shouldn’t happen on the back of often lower paid shop staff in Scotland and throughout the rest of the UK.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com