UK ministers in ‘fiery’ talks on Brexit farce
ANDREA Leadsom ‘tore into’ Remainers in the British cabinet for thwarting Brexit yesterday as she hit out at plans for a lengthy delay – and hinted she could quit.
During a fiery cabinet meeting, she rounded on colleagues for losing their nerve and allowing the UK to be dragged into asking for a humiliating delay to its departure from the EU.
She said: ‘This used to be the cabinet that would deliver Brexit and now, from what I’m hearing, it’s not.’
Treasury chief secretary Liz Truss also warned the meeting that failure to deliver Brexit soon would usher in a Labour government.
One source said Mrs Leadsom – a leading Brexiteer – ‘tore into people around the table’ over their conduct during the Brexit negotiations.
Another said she had given the impression she could even resign if the UK government agrees a long Brexit delay next week. Friends of Mrs Leadsom last night declined to comment on whether she was prepared to walk out over the issue.
Theresa May warned that Commons Speaker John Bercow’s decision to ‘raise the bar’ for a third vote on her Brexit deal meant it could not now be held this week.
She warned that, following a vote of MPs last week, she would now have to seek a ‘longer’ delay to the UK’s departure date. She will try to get a clause so the UK can leave in summer if parliament approves her deal.