Conservative MP quits Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Eurosceptic ERG for putting Brexit ‘at risk’
A Tory MP has resigned from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s European Research Group (ERG), claiming “hardcore” Brexiters are endangering their own goal of leaving the EU.
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Shropshire MP Daniel Kawczynski accused an ERG “hardcore elment of ‘Unicorn’ dreamers” of “now actually endangering Brexit”.
Kawczynski, who twice voted against Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal only to back it at the third time of asking, claimed hardliners were putting Brexit at risk.
Their stance could “lead to possibly no Brexit at all”, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Instead the ERG’s opposition to May’s deal has been “part of the problem in actually getting the withdrawal agreement across the finishing line”, he said.
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The Prime Minister is speaking with German Chancellor Angela Merkel today in Berlin before meeting President Emmanuelk Macron in Paris.
Then she will visit Brussels tomorrow for the EU summit, at which she hopes to secure a Brexit delay to 30 June.
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Last night parliament passed Yvette Cooper’s bill to stop the UK leaving the EU with no deal on Friday night, which quickly received royal assent to become law.