MSP: PM is at mercy of ‘eejit’ Tory Party Brexiteers

Theresa May has been left “at the mercy of the eejits, rogues and galoots” in her party, Scottish Labour’s Brexit spokesman said.

Neil Findlay hit out at hardline Brexiteers in the European Research Group as he slammed the Conservative government’s approach to Brexit.

Mr Findlay was speaking at the Scottish Labour Conference in Dundee, pictured, where members overwhelmingly passed a motion that includes backing for “an amendment in favour of a public vote, between the option on the one hand of a credible leave deal and on the other hand remain”.

With Brexit due on March 29 he said: “They (businesses) have no idea how goods will be transported, no idea what customs arrangements will be, no idea what travel arrangements will be in place, whether flights will take off and land, whether ferries will sail and be docked.

“What an absolute shambles.” Mr Findlay added: “We’ve got the stockpiling of medicines, the stockpiling of food and a ferry contract awarded to a company that didn’t have any boats.

The Labour MSP hit out at the “rotten, divisive, arrogant, incompetent, elite Tory government” who he said were responsible for “this fiasco”.

And he insisted a second Brexit referendum was needed to end the “paralysis” in the House of Commons, saying that at the moment there was “a political stalemate that shows no sign of ending”.

Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the ERG, said: “The people who would stop Brexit should know just this – what you do, you’ll have to do in public now.

“Stopping Brexit will be on you, not Brexiteers.”