Amber Rudd today accused Boris Johnson of deploying aggressive language that “does incite violence”.
In an exclusive interview with the Evening Standard, the former Cabinet minister condemned as “immoral” some Downing Street tactics in the Brexit debate and criticised a “casual approach to the safety of MPs and their staff”.
Ms Rudd, who quit Mr Johnson’s government after the Tory whip was withdrawn from 21 rebel MPs , revealed she may stand as an Independent Conservative candidate in a London constituency at the coming general election.
In key developments in the increasingly bitter Brexit deadlock:
- Government minister Alok Sharma doubled down on the Prime Minister’s use of the term “surrender act” to describe the law banning the Government from seeking to crash out of the European Union without a deal. Mr Sharma claimed the law was “a form of capitulation” to Brussels.
- Some 120 archbishops and bishops issued a statement pleading against “further entrenching our divisions” with divisive rhetoric.
- The Government was accused of plotting to use up to three potential “loopholes” in the law passed by a cross-party group of MPs to force the PM to seek a Brexit delay rather than crash out on October 31.
Ms Rudd quit as work and pensions secretary earlier this month and was in charge of the nation’s security as home secretary when the Manchester bombing occurred in 2017.