Boris Johnson slams Theresa May’s ‘soft Brexit’ as grassroot Tories call for her to be sacked
BORIS JOHNSON last night demanded Theresa May “Chuck Chequers” – as grassroots Tories called for her to be SACKED.
In a direct attack on the PM, the former Foreign Secretary said her ‘soft’ Brexit plan means “vassalage, satrapy, colony status” for the UK.
And he insisted it would result “for the first time in a thousand years” in Britain taking laws made overseas and enforced by a foreign court.
Writing in the Spectator he said: “It can’t and it won’t work.”
It came as he compared himself to an “ape released back into the wild” filled with “relief and joy” after quitting the Cabinet.
It’s the biggest blast yet by the would-be Tory leader at Theresa May’s Brexit compromise – struck at Chequers earlier this month – since he stepped back onto the backbenches.
And it came as new staggering accounts from grassroots Conservative meetings revealed the depth of anger at the PM over “selling out” to Brussels.
A report from the Conservative Policy Forum in Orpington, Kent last week said: “A clear majority were calling for the Prime Minister to be replaced.”
It added: “There was near unanimity on most issues. These included the view that Theresa May is in the process of betraying the Referendum result. When loyal members are talking about resigning, or ‘tearing up their cards’ there should be alarm bells going off.”
The ex-Foreign Secretary warned MPs in a resignation speech in the Commons last week that the “Brexit dream is dying” and accused the PM of raising the white flag to Brussels with her plan to stay in a single market for goods.
Party bosses admit local associations are in turmoil over the compromise, which could leave Britain at the whim of rulings by the hated European Court of Justice for years to come.
The Sun last week revealed thousands of disgruntled Tory Brexit voters have joined UKIP.
In his Spectator column, Mr Johnson said the Chequers plan would leave Britain on a par with an employee who is forced to continue abiding by his old organisation’s rules after quitting to “get out into the big wide world”.
He said: “What if you got regular emails saying do this, do that, make me a cup of coffee, you skirt’s too short, please cough up for the company car park – even when you had left? You’d go nuts.
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“You can’t leave an organisation and still be bound by its rules.
"But that is what the Chequers white paper means...It can’t and it won’t work. Chuck Chequers.”
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