'Corbyn poses an existential threat!' Ex-Brexit minister has warning for fellow Tory MPs
FORMER Brexit Minister Steve Baker has warned his fellow Conservative MPs about letting Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party into power who pose an “existential threat to prosperity in this country”.
Corbyn is 'the real threat' to the country says Steve Baker
Former Brexit Minister Steve Baker resigned from the Department for Exiting the European Union, following Theresa May’s Chequers meeting on Friday, in which the Cabinet agreed on a Brexit position.
On Sunday evening David Davis stepped down from his as Brexit Secretary, and on Monday afternoon, former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also resigned from the Cabinet.
Speaking on BBC’s Daily Politics, Mr Baker warned about the prospect of allowing Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party into power.
He said: “We have talked about the party’s unity. I think anyone can look back at the way I handled chairing Conservatives for Britain.
“One of the reasons I did it, and one of the ways I did it was to try to keep the Conservative Party together during that period.
“The first interview I did was with Damien Green on this programme. We came in friends and we went out friends.
“I hope and expect that we can get through whatever difficulties lie ahead and keep Conservative Party together.
“No one should be in any doubt that the real existential threat to prosperity in this country is John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.”
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The real existential threat to prosperity in this country is John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party
The Prime Minister faced the threat of a vote on her future after she met with her party's backbench 1922 Committee on Monday evening.
Theresa May appeared to have headed off the threat of a potential threat to her leadership and is thought to have used the meeting to urge MPs to back her, or risk hard-left Labour leader Mr Corbyn seizing power.
Sir Graham Brady declined to comment on whether he had received any letters from MPs calling for a no-confidence vote in Mrs May.
He said: "It would be entirely improper ever to comment in any way on that subject because inevitably a commentary could influence the course of events."
Asked if Mrs May would fight any attempt to remove her through a vote of no confidence, a senior Downing Street source said: "Yes."
It comes as the former Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson claimed his Brexit dream ”is dying” in his scathing resignation letter.
Mr Johnson wrote: "Brexit should be about opportunity and hope. It should be a chance to do things differently, to be more nimble and dynamic, and to maximise the particular advantages of the UK being an open, outward-looking global economy.
"That dream is dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt."