WHO’S SAYING WHAT ABOUT CHEQUERS?
THE BREXITEERS
BORIS JOHNSON: ‘The UK has agreed to hand over £40 billion of taxpayers’ money for two thirds of diddly squat. We will remain in the EU taxi; but this time locked in the boot, with absolutely no say on the destination. We won’t have taken back control – we will have lost control.’ JACOB REES-MOGG: ‘Michel Barnier and I found we were in a considerable degree of agreement that Chequers is absolute rubbish and that we should chuck it.’
CONOR BURNS: ‘Many of us believe Chequers does not deliver on the referendum. We think it is actually worse than staying in.’
THE REMAINERS
JUSTINE GREENING: ‘The Chequers deal is now more unpopular with the British people than the poll tax was.’
NICK BOLES: ‘This is the first time I have broken with my Prime Minister but she is wrong on this.’ THE MAY LOYALISTS
SAJID JAVID: ‘The thing that is helpful is for us all to support the Prime Minister with her plan and make sure it is getting a fair hearing at the EU.’
AMBER RUDD: ‘The best shot we have, I feel, of a Brexit that will work for the UK is the Chequers deal the Prime Minister has. Chequers in the right way to unite party and the country.’