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Chuck Chequers, says Boris
me, the people of this country will find it hard to forgive...
“If we remain half-in half-out, we will protract this toxic, tedious business.”
At a ConservativeHome fringe event, he aimed a broadside at Mr Gove by warning against leaving the EU with a deal then hoping to sort it out afterwards – a move floated by Mr Gove.
Mr Johnson told 1,500 Tory activists in Birmingham: “Do not believe that we of a Pound Shop Jacob Rees-Mogg – he’s got the same script but with less verve.
On Europe, he’s as deceitful as that £350million bus fib, shouting, “Chuck Chequers”, without offering a coherent can somehow get it wrong now and fix it later... Total fantasy.”
In his 33-minute speech he outlined a traditional platform for a leadership bid by calling for low taxes, boosting home ownership and devolving power.
He laid into Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, mocked Chancellor Philip Hammond and slammed Mrs May over police stop-and-search powers.
She responded by saying in an interbelieve
alternative. Supporting NHS rises then opposing tax hikes to fund better care is him wanting to have his cake and eat it.
Under the high-tax Cons, the overall take is at a 49-year high, but it would be healthy to reverse huge handouts to big corporations and force them to pay fair.
His nauseating rubbishing of council housing was the snobbery of a wealthy view: “There are one or two things that Boris said that I am cross about.”
Mrs May also slapped him down by saying: “Of course, Boris, when he was Foreign Secretary, signed up to the Chequers plan and then a few days later resigned from the Cabinet.”
Business Minister Claire Perry said Mr Johnson “doesn’t have a policy backbone anywhere on him”.
In her speech Mrs May will claim the Tories are the party of virtue.
She is due to say: “Millions who have never supported our party... are appalled by what Jeremy Corbyn has
Old Etonian who, as London Mayor, bequeathed his successor, Labour’s Sadiq Khan, no social home building.
Johnson’s jovial veneer is wearing thin. Behind the mask is a jaundiced, unpleasant, calculating, egotistical bigot.
The country can trust the selfish former Foreign Secretary every bit as much as his soon-to-be second ex-wife. done to Labour. They want to support a party that is decent, moderate and patriotic. One that puts the national interest first... And is comfortable with modern Britain in all its diversity.
“We must show everyone in this country that we are that party.”
Uncertainty surrounds her plan for the Irish border amid reports she is preparing a compromise on EU “backstop” proposals, which would involve customs checks in the Irish Sea.
DUP leader Arlene Foster, who props up Mrs May’s government, shot down No 10’s latest plan, insisting: “Northern Ireland is not about to become a semidetached part of the United Kingdom.”
In another row, the PM has publicly disowned Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s remarks in his speech when he compared the EU to the Soviet Union.
Mr Hunt accused Brussels of seeking to “punish” Britain for wanting to exit the EU and likened it to the USSR trying to stop its citizens leaving.