Keir Starmer keeps pressure on David Davis over edited Brexit papers

Labour’s Brexit spokesman to ask speaker to rule on whether his Tory opponent is in contempt of parliament

Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, has warned that David Davis could be in contempt of parliament after the government handed over heavily edited analyses on the impact of leaving the EU to a select committee.

On Tuesday, Starmer accused the government of withholding information on how leaving the EU will affect 58 industrial sectors, after it previously promised to give the Brexit committee these documents in an unedited and unredacted form.

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