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PM Gets Letter Saying - Get Tough Theresa!

3,580 views · Published 24 June 2018 · 7:29 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2018 · News & Politics

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Politicians, economists and business-people have urged the Prime Minister to get tough with Brussels and threaten to walk out on the Brexit negotiations.

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Theresa May was sent sent a strong letter from 60 prominent economists, politicians and business-people on the second anniversary of the EU referendum, calling on her to take an assertive position at next Thursday's meeting in Brussels and to press home that 'no deal is better than a bad deal' as well as ensuring that the EU knows we are prepared to walk away and take the so-called £39 billion Brexit divorce bill money with us - unless we get a proper free trade deal.

And Iain Duncan Smith has told the PM to take control and just hand over her business card saying call me when you want to talk, I'm off! - Sounds to me like someone's been reading the Donald Trump play book of business, but that's what it'll probably take to shake a deal out of the tree, especially when you consider the stonewalling that the EU has been engaged in over the whole negotiating period.

Anyway, let's just hope that Theresa is in listening mode. Or is she once again going to only hear the whispers of compromise in her little shell-like?

But in the background the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, and the Trade Secretary Liam Fox, have a difference of opinion on transition periods.

Liam Fox says he would not be bothered, if it was extended a few months and he had a bit of a go at Boris, who had said that we should not allow a protracted process by quipping:

"We don’t want some bog roll Brexit – soft, yielding and seemingly infinitely long."

Now, it's being claimed that the real reason for the Tory Brexit rebels standing aside to let the EU Withdrawal Bill go through last week, was the threat of deselection.

"In a series of bruising secret meetings, Chief Whip Julian Smith said there would be ‘severe consequences’ if they humiliated the Prime Minister." Says the Mail.

Which is being seen by some as a threat to deselect, however, the chief Tory whip, Julian Smith, said it was a reference to repercussions for everyone if the government lost the vote.

And the Mail quotes an unnamed anti-Brexit MP as saying:

"We knew we would be accused of bottling out. But with the Government and the party inches from collapse, we had to act in the interest of the country.

"All the PM has done is bought more time: unless she shows more leadership there will be another seismic crisis further down the road."

The Conservative MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, Jack Lopresti, made a statement on Friday in his blog regarding Airbus.

And finally, for those that missed it, the french president, Emmanuel Macron, has called the rise of anti-EU sentiment across the bloc as 'like leprosy'.

Sources:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/978694/brexit-news-second-anniversary-britain-theresa-may

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6609750/liam-fox-slam-bojo-bog-roll-brexit/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5878617/Deselection-warning-forced-Tory-rebels-PM-Brexit.html

https://www.jacklopresti.com/news/my-statement-regarding-airbus

http://www.airbus.com/company/worldwide-presence/uk.html

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/24/jeremy-hunt-hits-back-at-airbus-over-brexit-warnings-on-jobs

http://www.ukip.org/macron_compares_anti_eu_sentiment_to_leprosy