A snap election in the U.K. in December is what's needed to break parliamentary paralysis over Brexit, Richard Dearlove, the former chief of the U.K.'s Secret Intelligence Service, told CNBC Thursday.
to sort out its departure from the EU, and to ratify a Brexit deal, until January 31, 2020.
Then in November 2018, Dearlove co-signed an open later published in a British newspaper that heavily criticized the Brexit deal negotiated by the then-Prime Minister Theresa May. In the letter, Dearlove said the deal, as it was then, "surrenders British national security by subordinating U.K. defence forces to Military EU control and compromising U.K. Intelligence capabilities."
"I'm not sure exactly where we stand on that and in a way it's surprising that I'm not. But there's a lot of the detail that was in the Withdrawal Agreement, particularly on defense and security issues, with which I disagree. And that was one of reasons why I was very unhappy with the negotiation that the previous prime minister had completed," he said.
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