Friday 23 February 2018

Tory rebels tell May: We’ll halt Britain’s exit from a customs union.

Nicky Morgan, who chairs the Commons 
Treasury Committee, joined other MPs supporting the move Getty
Theresa May was today hit by a growing Tory revolt over Brexit as MPs demanded that Britain stay in a cu Nicky Morgan stoms union after quitting the EU.

Senior Conservative backbenchers put their name to a cross-party amendment which could inflict a government defeat if Jeremy Corbyn shifts Labour’s position to support the UK remaining in a customs union.

Nicky Morgan, who chairs the Commons Treasury Committee, Dr Sarah Wollaston, who chairs the Commons health committee, and three former ministers, Anna Soubry, Stephen Hammond and Jonathan Djanogly joined Labour’s Chuka Umunna in launching the move in the Commons.





Full story at Standard.
By Nicholas Cecil, Kate Proctor & Joe Murphy.



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