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Theresa May has voiced her disdain for the government’s post-Brexit policing schemes by giving the impression that she is saying “nonsense” when Michael Gove declared that the UK could do “better” without joint law enforcement operations.
The former prime minister made her sentiments known when Gove asserted that the UK could “cooperate more effectively” in many areas on border security outside the EU than “we could ever within”.
She was caught on camera grimacing and uttering an incredulous “what?” when Gove said the UK had “a variety of methods and agreements open to us, open to the Border Force and open to our security and intelligence services” after Brexit.
A PA Media reporter in the Westminster press gallery said that, off camera, May also appeared to be saying “nonsense” as Gove continued to explain the contingencies of the no-deal.
Police have expressed deep concern about their capabilities if they lose the European arrest warrant or access to live passenger data, which is critical in fast-moving counterterrorism operations.
May told the Commons that “the government seems resigned to the prospect of no agreement, but one area that they should not resign themselves to to the prospect of no agreement is security.”
He noted that neither Gove, in his update to the house Monday, nor Boris Johnson, in his letter to MPs on Friday, had mentioned safety in recent remarks.
“Will be [Gove] confirm that if the UK leaves without a deal, then our police and law enforcement agencies will no longer have the necessary access to databases, such as PNR (passenger name records), to continue to identify and catch criminals and Potential terrorists in order to keep us safe?
Gove said “significant progress” has been made in security cooperation, but added that in the case of a second tool at the disposal of the police, the Schengen Information System 2 (SIS2), the EU was demanding a role for the European court of justice. in case of disputes, which the UK “cannot accept”.
