Hastings and Rye candidates outline their stances on Brexit

The four people vying to be your next MP sat down with our reporter to answer a range of questions, including their biggest priorities for the constituency and their pitch to the voters.

Here, they each outline their stance on Brexit:

Sally-Ann Hart, Conservative:

If the Conservatives get a majority in December, they said they would deliver Brexit under the terms agreed by Boris Johnson with European Union.

Sally-Ann Hart said: “I campaigned to leave in Hastings and Rye in 2016 on the grounds of democracy and sovereignty. That, for me, was the most important thing. I understand for other people it might have been to do with immigration and other reasons but for me, it was democracy and sovereignty, because I want the people who impose laws and regulation on me to account to me and take responsibility for those.

“Looking back over the past 40 years, when the EU has taken away more and more sovereignty from countries and when Tony Blair signed the Lisbon Treaty, taking us into a closer federal union with the EU, that sewed the seeds of political discontent.

“I want to deliver Brexit and I think Boris’ deal is the right way to do it because I think it will give people certainty on free trade and having measures in place to stop a cliff edge.”

Peter Chowney, Labour:

Labour is proposing to renegotiate a deal with Brussels before putting that deal to a referendum alongside the option of remaining in the European Union.

If it came to that, Peter Chowney said he would campaign to remain.

Speaking of renegotiating with the EU, he added: “I think that’s just us getting a credible deal (out of Brussels) to put to the people. I would hope that Labour didn’t insist that their MPs all supported that deal because I don’t think I could do that.

“I can’t imagine any deal, in my view, that would be better than remaining. Because it would have to be so like remaining – being in the single market, customs union and the rest of it – well what’s the difference? You may as well stay in.

“Having said that, if a second referendum still went to leave then I’d support that in Parliament. I wouldn’t query it beyond that. There’s not much you can do about it then.”