Remoaners plot ‘HIT LIST’ in bid to OUST Brexit MPs – is YOUR constituency on the list?
BITTER Remain campaigners have drawn up a “hit list” of Eurosceptic MPs to unseat in the General Election in a desperate bid to fight the tide of Brexit, it has been revealed.
Blair tells voters not to support MPs who back Brexit 'at any cost'
Open Britain, who rose from the ashes of the failed official Remain campaign Britain Stronger in Europe, has called on voters to reject MPs who backed the will of the people following the EU referendum.
The Europhile faction is attempting to influence the election in key constituencies where a majority of voters supported remain but their MPs backed the people’s choice to leave.
Lord Mandelson, a member of the group and staunch Remainer who attempted to scupper Theresa May’s article 50 bill in the House of Lords, called on Eurofanatics to shut the door on Brexit backing MPs.
He said: “Election candidates of all parties should be demanding that a hard Brexit is rejected and making clear that they will reserve judgment on the outcome until they see whether we get exactly the same trade benefits, as Brexit secretary David Davis has promised.”
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Tony Blair has called on Labour to turn Brexit against the Tories
The group hopes to mobilise its half a million supporters to kick out prominent Brexit-backers including Iain Duncan Smith, Theresa Villiers and Kate Hoey.
Stephen Dorrell, the former Tory MP who chairs European Movement, claimed voting for a pro-EU candidate was more important than voting for any one party.
He said: “This election is about something much bigger than party politics – it is about our future relationship with the rest of Europe.
“Pro-Europeans need to stand up and be counted between now and 8 June.
Mandelson's group hopes to mobilise its half a million supporters to kick out prominent Brexiteers
“The supporters of our organisations want to know where they can make a difference in this campaign and we are providing the tools for them to be able to.”
Meanwhile ardent Brexit saboteur Tony Blair has called on Labour to turn Brexit against the Tories – and warned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn "this is not the time to fight a conventional partisan election"
He said: “Ignoring the Brexit issue or trying to downplay it as one issue out of many just won’t work… we have to expose the fact that the mandate the Tories are asking for is not an open negotiation in the interests of the country but for a Brexit at any cost driven by the ideology of the right of the Tory party.
Tony Blair has long been accused of trying to subvert the Brexit referendum's result
“Yet if this is seen as a narrow Labour point, it will be much less persuasive.
“Hence the absolute necessity, in the Labour interest, of rallying people to a more reasonable and open position on Brexit across the party divide.”
OPEN BRITAIN'S BREXIT BACKING TARGETS
Iain Duncan Smith
Conservative
Chingford and Woodford Green
Majority: 8,386
Campaigned for leave
Estimated vote in constituency: 51% remain
Kate Hoey
Labour
Vauxhall
Majority: 12,708
Campaigned for leave
Estimated vote in constituency: 78% remain
Theresa Villiers
Conservative
Chipping Barnet
Majority: 7,656
Campaigned for leave
Estimated vote in constituency: 59% remain
Steve Baker
Conservative
Wycombe
Majority: 14,856
Campaigned for leave
Estimated vote in constituency: 52% remain
James Berry
Conservative
Kingston and Surbiton
Majority: 2,834
Campaigned to remain, but accused of not speaking out against hard Brexit
Estimated vote in constituency: 58% remain
Labour's Kate Hoey is one of their top targets
OPEN BRITAIN"S EUROPHILE 'SEATS TO DEFEND'
Mary Creagh
Labour
Wakefield
Majority: 2,613
Campaigned to remain
Estimated vote in constituency: 63% leave
Pat McFadden
Labour
Wolverhampton South East
Majority: 10,767
Campaigned to remain
Estimated vote in constituency: 68% leave
Norman Lamb
Liberal Democrat
North Norfolk
Majority: 4,043
Campaigned to remain
Estimated vote in constituency: 58% leave
Neil Carmichael
Conservative
Stroud
Majority: 4,866
Campaigned to remain
Estimated vote in constituency: 54% remain
Caroline Lucas
Green
Brighton Pavilion
Majority: 7,967
Campaigned to remain
Estimated vote in constituency: 74% remain