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Re: Brexit
Chief whip attacks cabinet's post-election Brexit strategy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47768884
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The government should have made clear after the 2017 election that it would "inevitably" have to accept a closer relationship with the EU after Brexit, the Conservative chief whip has said.
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In a BBC documentary, Julian Smith - who manages party discipline - is also critical of the cabinet's behaviour.
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In interviews for The Brexit Storm: Laura Kuenssberg's Inside Story, Mr Smith accused ministers of trying to undermine the prime minister.
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He said he witnessed ministers "sitting around the cabinet table... trying to destabilise her [Mrs May]" and described their behaviour as the "worst example of ill-discipline in cabinet in British political history".
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