Ex-davis aide says Brexit will be a ‘catastrophe’

The former chief of staff to Brexit Secretary David Davis has claimed the UK’S withdrawal from the EU will be a “catastrophe” and urged MPS to form a new political party to block it. James Chapman, a former political editor of the Daily Mail who worked as a special adviser at the Department for Exiting the EU, suggested centrist MPS could form a new bloc to seize the balance of power at Westminster.

Naming Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson as potential key player in any pro-eu political alliance, he said a new party would grant a second Scottish independence referendum that nationalists would “lose must worse than last time”.

Suggesting a “the Democrats” as a possible name for a new centrist grouping, Mr Chapman said their “priority” would be “getting up noses of Brexit jihadis”.

“Past time for sensible MPS in all parties to admit Brexit is a catastrophe, come together in new party if need be, and reverse it,” he posted on Twitter.

Mr Chapman, who also worked for former Chancellor George Osborne, said the economic impact of Brexit would require ten “punishment budgets”.