Marr SLAPS DOWN Shami Chakrabarti in TENSE interview – ‘Don’t you patronise me!’

BBC host Andrew Marr shut down Shami Chakrabarti after she challenged him on his democratic acceptance of the Brexit referendum results. The pair repeatedly locked horns as the Labour peer outlined her party's rejection of the proposed Brexit withdrawal deal Theresa May unveiled last week. Mr Marr questioned the shadow Attorney General on why she supported plans to seek a General Election on a pro-Brexit manifesto despite voting to Remain in 2016. 

Speaking on Sunday on The Andrew Marr Show, the veteran BBC host said: "I can’t understand why you want to leave the EU. You’re going to go to a general election campaign as a member of a party whose manifesto says ‘we are leaving the EU, we are EU-exit enablers.’"

After Ms Chakrabarti claimed she would support Labour's plans because she is "a democrat", Mr Marr exploded: "Don’t try and patronise me. I’m as much a democrat as you are."

Ms Chakrabarti explained she still did not want to leave the European Union but respected the will of the people who opted to withdraw from the bloc in the 2016 referendum.

She said: "I don’t want to leave the EU. I campaigned for Remain. I’m a democrat. I don’t know about you Andrew, but I’m a democrat.

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"I certainly wouldn’t try to patronise you. I’m sure you would never try and patronise me."

The pair had clashed only minutes before when Mr Marr questioned the Labour peer on whether she had read the 585-page long proposed deal – an apparent reference to Jeremy Corbyn admitted to skim-reading the text.

Ms Chakrabarti continued: "You are citing this deal to me and I’m not buying it. And I don’t think the House of Commons is buying it because it’s unacceptable. It’s unacceptable to all sides. To leavers, to Remainers.

"I’ve read it all, thank you."

The Labour Party has so far insisted their MPs would vote against the proposed deal unless Theresa May re-enters negotiations with Brussels to change terms that would see Britain enter a UK-wide backstop agreement to avoid the creation of a hard border in Northern Ireland. 

The terms would see the country remain in the customs union but unable to alter the trading rules the bloc abides by and would require the EU giving permission before the UK could withdraw from the temporary arrangement.

But Brexiteers fear the European Union could use the alleged loophole to keep Britain in the single market and customs union indefinitely.

Brexiteer Nadine Dorries compared the possibility of maintaining close ties to Brussels as "serfdom" during a scathing attack against both the proposed Brexit withdrawal text and the European Union.

The seething Mid Bedfordshire MP said: "What the public are absolutely furious about is that the EU have sent this agreement back where they expect us to be slaves to the European Union. You don’t do that to the British people.

"They will not tolerate it. We don’t even have the ability to say ‘can we leave this extended customs union period?’ They all have to say to us ‘yes, you can go.’

"You can use whatever word you want, I would call that a vassal state, an empty state. I’d call it serfdom. It’s appalling and it’s beyond belief that Number 10 think they can sell this to the country. They can’t, people can see right through it."