Grief for loving dad killed in police chase crash
Tragedy... Adnan Ashraf Jarral, 35, and baby Usman THERESA MAY is facing a bloodbath of ministerial resignations as her hopes of securing a divorce deal with the European Union appeared to be in tatters yesterday.
At least four more Remainer ministers are on the brink of quitting after Boris Johnson’s brother Jo resigned on Friday.
Tory Brexiteers and the Democratic Unionist Party also warned they are prepared to torpedo Mrs May’s proposed deal.
Brexiteer Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the European Research Group of Conservative backbenchers, and the DUP’s Sammy Wilson said they would oppose any agreement which they believed threatened the union and could put a trade border down the Irish Sea.
Any hope Mrs May had of getting the Cabinet to sign off her Brexit deal proposals this week appear to be vanishing after it was reported that Brussels had rejected her plans for a clause that could allow the UK to quit a backstop deal for the Northern Ireland border in a bid to convince Brexiteers the UK will not be trapped indefinitely.
But sources in London and Brussels say the EU has dismissed the idea, increasing the risk the UK will now be forced into a no-deal Brexit.
A source said Mrs May’s plan is the Government’s “life-support”, adding: “By rejecting the proposal, the EU has turned off the oxygen.”
Education Secretary Damian Hinds confirmed yesterday that the Government had dropped calls for a A DEVASTATED family has paid tribute to a “loving father” and his baby son who were among four people killed when a car being chased by police hit them.
Father-of-three Adnan Ashraf Jarral, 35, and Usman Adnan Jarral, one, died when a VW Golf careered into their VW Touran people carrier on Friday night.
Husband and wife Miroslav Duna, 50, and Vlasta Dunova, 41, also died in the crash in the Darnall area of Sheffield.
They were believed to have been friends of Mr Jarral’s wife, Tahreen, who is recovering in hospital.
Police said their daughter, Nikola Dunova, 22, was also seriously injured in the Touran along with her daughter, Livia Matova, three, who is in a critical condion.
Three men in the Golf, aged 17, 18 and 23, had minor injuries. They were arrested and are in custody.
Mr Jarral’s uncle, Shafqat Mirza, hard end-date or unilateral exit from a backstop. He said there was no point asking Brussels for something that could not be negotiated but insisted MPs should get a package that would give them “comfort that it is not an open-ended thing”.
Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom, who is among Eurosceptic ministers put on “resignation watch” by Mrs May’s allies, warned that the Scene of carnage after the crash in Darnall, Sheffield, on Friday night called his nephew “humble and polite” and extremely proud of his two sons and stepson.
He added: “To lose such a young person who was very loving, very caring, family-orientated and community orientated, it’s devastating for all of us.”
South Yorkshire Police has referred the crash to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. In a UK “cannot be held against its will in a customs arrangement”.
No 10 sought to calm Tory MPs’ nerves by insisting that the Government would not strike an agreement “at any cost” and surrender to EU demands. But Ms Leadsom hinted that she will quit the Cabinet if the deal risks keeping the UK locked in a customs union. No 10 had hoped to reach an agreement with the EU separate tragedy, the family of an eight-year-old who died after she was hit by a car in Salford, Greater Manchester, on Saturday described her as their “beautiful girl and the kindest person we ever knew”.
Paramedics tried to save Emily Connor, of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, but she died at the scene. A man, 24, was held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. last week, to allow it to be put before the Cabinet by tomorrow.
Brussels has privately told the Government that if the green light is not given by Wednesday, it would be too late to trigger a vital EU summit before December – meaning that the Commons vote on the deal would be pushed back until after Christmas.
The EU demands the UK should stay within a temporary customs partnership, the “backstop” to avoid a hard border in Ireland.
If Mrs May agrees she faces the prospect of a mass Cabinet walkout. MP Andrew Bridgen told the Eurosceptic Bruges Group think-tank: “If we can’t chuck Chequers it’s time to chuck the Prime Minister.”
Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood admitted troops could be deployed if required if there was no deal.