'Whole damn thing needs to be BLOWN UP!' Churchill’s grandson DEMANDS Brexit is restarted
CHURCHILL’s grandson and Conservative MP Nicholas Soames has demanded that Brexit be “blown up and started all over again” to maintain the trust of the people in a fiery Parliamentary rant.
Nicholas Soames calls for Brexit to be 'BLOWN up' and restarted
During a debate on Tuesday in the House of Commons, Conservative MP Nicholas Soames said Brexit should be started again in order for the country to maintain its “integrity and trust of the people”.
The Conservative MP for Mid Sussex said: “One of the great glories of this sadly now diminished country was our electoral and democratic system.
“This example today is gross and if we are going to maintain the integrity and trust of the voting public the whole damn thing needs to be blown up and started all over again.”
On Monday four amendments put forward by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s European Research Group passed, steering Theresa May’s soft Brexit blueprint in a harder direction, but today pro-EU Tory amendments will get their revenge with votes on the Trade Bill.
The whole damn thing needs to be blown up and started all over again
Tory MPs Stephen Hammond and Nicky Morgan put forward a new amendment to the current Trade Bill that would force the Government to stay in the customs union if Brussels cannot be persuaded to allow Britain a free trade area by January 2019.
Brexiteers narrowly defeated Tory rebels by just three votes on two amendments.
One goes back on Theresa May’s white paper suggestion to collect tariffs on behalf of the European Union. The amendment means this will only happen if the EU agrees to reciprocate - resulting in 14 Tories rebelling.
Another amendment, ensuring the UK is out of the EU’s VAT regime, barely passed by three votes and a Tory rebellion of 11.
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The entire bill was approved by the House of Commons 318 to 285.
As a result of Monday's battle, Defence minister Guto Bebb resigned after voting against the Government.
Mrs May’s Brexit blueprint proposes to preserve the close trading ties Britain has with the EU through a free trade area administered by a common rulebook.
But the Prime Minister is facing pressure from both Leavers and Remainers over her Chequers agreement, which they describe as unworkable.
Brexiteers have rejected the plan, claiming it is a betrayal of the demands of Leave voters to withdraw from all current arrangements the UK is part of because of its EU membership.
Britain’s white paper calls for a new “common rulebook, a free trade area for goods and a Facilitated Customs Arrangement” to enable frictionless UK-EU trade to continue and guarantee the prevention of a hard border on the island of Ireland.