Brexit are able to vote on remaining in the European Economic Area ( the House of Lords ), following a government defeat in EEA . The defeat causes problems for the UK strategies of Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn , and comes a few days after Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called May ’s customs proposal "crazy”. “It is the EEA that deals with services, services like retail, tourism, transport, communications, financial services and aerospace where we have a £14bn trade surplus,” he said. It was the government’s third of Seventeen defeats in one afternoon during the debate about the Brexit bill. Labour rebel Waheed Alli said continued membership of the EEA was vital for the UK ’s exports.
Brexit are able to vote on remaining in the European Economic Area ( the House of Lords ), following a government defeat in EEA . The defeat causes problems for the UK strategies of Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn , and comes a few days after Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called May ’s customs proposal "crazy”. It was the government’s third of Seventeen defeats in one afternoon during the debate about the Brexit bill. Labour rebel Waheed Alli said continued membership of the EEA was vital for the UK ’s exports.