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10.12.2018 | ‘Govern or Quit’ Rees-Mogg blasts May over Brexit shambles - 'we can't go on like this'
Source - The Daily Express

The leading Brexiteer said Mrs May should step aside and make way for a leader who can make good on the result of the 2016 referendum if she is unable to do it herself. And he warned the disarray caused by today’s embarrassing climbdown would only serve to increase the chances of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour winning power. Mr Rees-Mogg said: "What has two years of Theresa May doing Brexit amounted to? An undeliverable deal parliament would roundly reject, if the Prime Minister has the gumption to allow it to go before the House of Commons.

"This is not governing, it risks putting Jeremy Corbyn into government by failing to deliver Brexit. We cannot continue like this.

"The Prime Minister must either govern or quit."

Mrs May this afternoon abruptly delayed a crunch vote on her Brexit deal scheduled for tomorrow.

Addressing the House of Commons, the Prime Minister admitted going ahead with the vote would end in certain defeat for the Government.

She told MPs she would attempt to secure further “reassurances” from the European Union on the Irish backstop in a bid to allay the fears of Brexiteers and her allies in the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) who have warned the terms could lock Britain into a customs union with the bloc for years to come.

But the DUP’s Westminster leader Nigel Dodds said the Prime Minister's reassurance "simply is not credible" and the Government was in "an impossible position" without changes to the backstop.

He said: "The Prime Minister says she is listening but she talks about reassurances and assurances - does she not get it by now that the Withdrawal Agreement legally binding text is unacceptable to this House?

"She cannot pretend going on defending the deal when she knows that if the vote had taken place tomorrow it would have been overwhelmingly defeated.

"So please, Prime Minister, really do start listening and come back with changes to the Withdrawal Agreement or it will be voted down."



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