David Davis intent on humiliating PM over what he believes are deliberate attempts by No10 to foil Brexit
FURIOUS David Davis has threatened to humiliate Theresa May by making a plea to the full Cabinet to overrule yet another Brexit delay.
The angry Brexit Secretary believes No10 officials are “putting sand in the engine” by insisting on rewriting a long-promised Brexit blueprint paper for a FIFTH time.
It also emerged last night that key decisions on a new customs relationship with the EU will be ducked yet again when the Cabinet’s Brexit committee meets on Thursday.
Senior ministers are pleading with No10 to enforce a decision between two options, which has split the Cabinet down the middle.
But instead, the PM will ask her 11-strong inner sanctum to discuss Melton Mowbray pork pies and Stilton cheese.
What to do about trademark names after Brexit is one of a number of unresolved separation issues that she will ask her top team to discuss.
Meanwhile a friend of David Davis described him as “very bullish” on making sure the 150 page White Paper setting out the future relationship with the EU be published before a crunch meeting of EU leaders in two weeks time.
The pal said he was “prepared to go to the whole Cabinet with his concerns if he has to”, threatening to plunge Mrs May’s top team into new turmoil.
Such a move would be an unprecedented challenge to the Prime Minister’s authority and the major row over what to do about the White Paper has marked a new low in the pair’s relationship.
Mr Davis has promised it will be the “most significant publication on the EU” since the 2016 referendum.
But his allies say he was enraged after civil servants in No10 demanded the “detailed, ambitious and precise explanations of our positions” be delayed as they write a fifth draft.
“For months Europe have been demanding we give them more detail and now we are going out of way not to give it to them,” one said.
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One minister told The Sun yesterday: “Everybody is crying out for a customs decision, whatever it bloody is.
“Then we can at least move on and start selling it to Brussels, businesses and especially our own backbenchers, before they enforce a decision of their own on us in the Commons.”
With no sign of the Cabinet deadlock on the customs row ending, two working groups have been ordered to keep working on the two options – a New Customs Partnership and ‘Maximum Facilitation’ – for another two weeks.
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