The Liberal Democrat leader responded to Boris Johnson’s statement on his Brexit deal saying it would damage the British economy ‘on a scale greater than the financial crash’. She also accused the prime minister of rejecting a people’s vote out of fear that the public would ‘reject this bad deal and choose to remain in the EU'. Boris responded by saying that the deal would not remove workers’ rights and he accused Swinson of not allowing the British public a say on the deal by preventing a general election