Senior Conservative MP Nick Boles quits local party over Brexit
Pro-EU MP Nick Boles has resigned from his local Conservative party due to disagreements over Brexit.
The MP for Grantham and Stamford in Lincolnshire claimed a "division has opened up" between him and his members.
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In a letter to those members at his constituency's Conservative Association, Boles said he was "not willing to do what would be necessary to restore a reasonable working relationship with a group of people whose values and views are so much at odds with my own".
Boles will continue to sit as a Conservative MP but his association will be able to select another candidate at the next general election.
He says that the difference of opinion over Brexit evolves around whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal.
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In his letter the Lincolnshire MP said: "Many (members) are convinced that the government should take the UK out of the European Union without a deal.
"While I have consistently argued that Brexit must be delivered… I am certain that crashing out of the EU without a deal would do great harm to the British people."