‘Betrayal’ letter goes to No10 from 50,000

BREXIT backers will today deliver to Number 10 a message from thousands of voters fuming that Theresa May’s latest blueprint is a betrayal of the referendum.

The cross-party Get Britain Out grassroots campaign say the letter is signed by 50,000 supporters.

The group sees the event as a chance to underline the anger felt at the Chequers deal for continued close links with the EU, which Mrs May agreed with her Cabinet.

Get Britain Out director Jayne Adye said a previous letter received only a “holding reply” from the PM’s communications unit.

But she said that thousands more supporters have flocked to endorse the message that “the vast majority of the public do not accept your proposed future relationship with the EU”.

She said: “The Government’s White Paper does not deliver Brexit in any meaningful sense of the word.”

Ms Adye added: “Our grassroots supporters feel betrayed, forgotten, and let down by the current direction of UK-EU Brexit negotiations, which clearly do not reflect the mandate given by the EU referendum result.

“The great British public clearly believe in this country and what we can do when standing on our own two feet.

“We deserve a political class with this same patriotic conviction.”