MPs ransom note on Brexit
More than 60 backbench Conservative MPs have sent Theresa May a list of hard Brexit demands ahead of a crunch meeting, triggering a furious reaction from colleagues who branded the letter a ransom note.
As dozens of members of the party’s European Research Group added their names to the correspondence setting out their expectations for Brexit with “full regulatory autonomy, other Tory politicians hit back.
Nicky Morgan, an advocate for a soft Brexit who chairs the Treasury select committee, said: This isn’t a letter, it is a ransom note. The ERG clearly think they have the prime minister as their hostage.
Letter from European Research Group to May
The letter was sent to the prime minister as well as Brexit secretary David Davis, international trade secretary Liam ...