Theresa May refuses to vote with ‘reckless and irresponsible’ Boris Johnson
4 years, 3 months ago

Theresa May refuses to vote with ‘reckless and irresponsible’ Boris Johnson

The Independent  

Boris Johnson got his controversial bill through the House of Commons last night, but without the support of his predecessor. Theresa May agrees with all four other living former prime ministers – John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron – in opposing Johnson’s policy. The question on which MPs voted last night was the prime minister’s willingness to tear up the EU withdrawal agreement. Thus she leaves Ted Heath as the last former prime minister who actually voted against their own government’s three-line whip. But the depth of her disagreement with her successor was unmistakable when she spoke on the bill last week: “I cannot emphasise how concerned I am that a Conservative government is willing to go back on its word, to break an international agreement signed in good faith and to break international law.” Most of her colleagues were persuaded that Johnson doesn’t really want to break international law, but that he has to threaten to do so in order to persuade the EU side in the trade talks that he is serious – or, as Alok Sharma put it more tactfully last night, that the clauses are a “legal safety net”.

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