People’s Vote on Brexit backed by Scots Labour

Theresa May has been left “at the mercy of the eejits, rogues and galoots of the ERG” as the UK prepares to leave the European Union, Scottish Labour’s Brexit spokesman has said.

Neil Findlay hit out at Tory hardline Brexiteers in the European Research Group – chaired by MP Jacob Rees-mogg – as he attacked the Conservative Government’s approach to Brexit.

It came as the Scottish Labour conference yesterday backed a motion for a People’s Vote on remaining in the EU.

Mr Findlay branded Brexit an “absolute shambles”.

The Prime Minister is “at the mercy of the eejits, rogues and galoots of the ERG, as they are better known,” he added.

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.

“I know that Laurel and Hardy have made a comeback this year but I was unawareitwasintheshape of (Health Secretary) Matt Hancock and (Transport Secretary) Chris Grayling.”

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 that 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”.

Kerry Buist, director of Scotland for a People’s Vote, said the Labour conference motion was a “welcome development.”