The Prime Minister, pictured leaving church today, warned MPs that they would need to back her deal if they wanted to avoid a delay to Article 50 or to avoid a no-deal situation
Britain will enter ‘zombie world’ if MPs don’t back May’s Brexit deal warns minister as hardline Brexiteers give her three tests she must pass to win their support
Delaying Brexit would leave Britain stuck in a ‘zombie world’ without knowing which direction it was heading in, a minister warned today.
Prisons Minister Rory Stewart lashed out at mooted plans to keep the UK in the EU past March 29, saying it opened up other outcomes that were not good for the country.
He urged MPs to back Theresa May’s Brexit deal after hardline Tory Brexiteers presented Theresa May with ‘three tests’ any agreement will have to pass in order for them to support it.
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s European Research Group presented peace terms to Geoffrey Cox, the Attorney General, in the latest sign that all but the most diehard eurosceptics are prepared to accept a deal.
Because if you think that through, extension to Article 50, which is going to be a vote which would effectively give lets say a couple of month’s extension, would resolve nothing.
‘It would put us in a world in which we were still in a zombie world, not knowing where we were going.
‘And it would increase the chance of other options. It increased the chance either of people pushing for general elections which wouldn’t solve everything, for another referendum … or it would push people towards a customs union which would stop us trading with the rest of the world.’
In private talks the ERG called for a legally binding mechanism to escape the backstop, with a clear exit route and an unambiguous rewrite of the language in the Government’s legal advice, the Sunday Times said.
It comes after senior eurosceptics appeared to dramatically soften their insistence that the Withdrawal Agreement must be rewritten to remove the Northern Irish border backstop provision.