Davis ‘thick as mince’, tweets Leave camp’s boss

The former head of the Vote Leave campaign has branded David Davis “thick as mince”, as he warned that a provision in the Brexit Secretary’s so-called Great Repeal Bill would allow ministers to cave in to EU demands at the last minute.

The Twitter outburst by Vote Leave campaign director Dominic Cummings reflects continuing rancour between different wings of the Brexit movement which saw intense infighting at the time of last year’s EU referendum.

It comes after Mr Cummings admitted there was a chance that leaving the EU would turn out to be an “error” and described Government members who thought the UK should leave the European atomic energy community Euratom as “morons”. Mr Cummings warned that a little-noticed clause of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill tabled by the Government last week could allow ministers to alter their Brexit position at the last minute to secure a lengthy transition period, which he suggested was favoured by Mr Davis, Chancellor Philip Hammond and Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood.

He said the Brexit Secretary was “manufactured exactly to specification as the perfect stooge for Heywood: thick as mince, lazy as a toad and vain as Narcissus”.