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Re: Brexit Discussion (Follow First Post Rules!)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/n...dget-vg7c9zgmh
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Brexiteers threaten to sabotage the budget
Brexiteers have issued a last-ditch threat to vote down the budget and destroy the government unless Theresa May takes a tougher line with Brussels — amid signs that she is on course to secure a deal with the European Union.
Leading members of the hardline European Research Group (ERG) last night vowed to vote down government legislation after it was claimed the prime minister will use Labour MPs to push her plan through the Commons.
The Sunday Times spoke to 18 cabinet ministers at the Conservative Party conference last week and every one of them said that May would get a deal and MPs would then end up approving it. But Bernard Jenkin, a veteran Eurosceptic, told a WhatsApp group of Tory MPs yesterday that it would lead to members refusing to back No 10 in other key votes.
“Make no mistake,” he wrote, “a soft/non-Brexit pushed by the Conservative establishment but put through with Labour support will look like we are abandoning our supporters and remove any sense of obligation among Conservative Brexit-supporting MPs to continue to support the government."
May is exploring a course that would see Britain stay in a customs union with the rest of the EU for an extended period. But Jenkin said that would “destroy party unity”.
The rebels plan to vote down budget motions later this month. “She hasn’t got a majority and, by God, she’s going to be shown she hasn’t got a majority,” said one.
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