Lord Heseltine claims Brexit is 'MOST depressing thing to happen' in his lifetime
LORD Heseltine claimed young peoples’ future is being “thrown away” because of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union.
Lord Heseltine: Brexit is most depressing thing to happen
Lord Heseltine said Brexiteers voted to leave the European Union to go “backwards” as a third country that is no longer as “impressive” as it once was.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Lord Heseltine said: “It is the most depressing thing that’s happened in peacetime in my lifetime.
“I mean, this country is a country with a huge historic claim to influence what’s going on in the world and here we are voluntarily opting out of one of the power groupings of this century.
“That’s why the young people are so incensed, dismayed, appalled by what’s happened because their future is being thrown away and prejudiced by an older generation looking backwards to a past which was impressive to a degree but which has gone.”
Brexit is the most depressing thing that’s happened in peacetime in my lifetime
Bow Group President Norman Tebbit called for Lord Heseltine to have the Tory whip removed following his push to thwart the Brexit result.
Mr Tebbit said: “Indeed, as the Chairman of the long-established centrist think tank, The Bow Group, has said, Lord Heseltine should lose the Conservative Whip in the House of Lords together with his membership of the Conservative Party.”
The former Tory Cabinet minister also suggested the "short-term pain" of the Labour Party in Downing Street would be preferable to the "long-term" effects of leaving the EU.
Lord Heseltine claimed Labour may give up its conflicting stance on Brexit and back staying in the EU, leaving the Government "holding the baby".
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Asked what could happen under five years of a Corbyn government, he told The Limehouse Podcast: “Well, we have survived Labour governments before.
"Their damage tends to be short-term and capable of rectification.
“Brexit is not short-term and is not easily capable of rectification.
"There will be those who question whether the short-term pain justifies the avoidance of the long-term disaster.”