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turbinetree

(27,564 posts)
Sun Jun 30, 2019, 10:04 PM Jun 2019

Theresa May makes veiled attack on Boris Johnson's Brexit policy [View all]

Source: The Guardian

Theresa May has made a thinly veiled attack on Boris Johnson’s “do or die” approach to leaving the EU on 31 October, insisting that the right approach for Britain was to leave with a deal.

Attending her last EU summit in Brussels as prime minister on Sunday, May took aim at the approach of the Tory leadership frontrunner, who has taken an increasingly hardline approach in recent days.

Johnson has said that if the EU declines to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement and remove the contentious Irish backstop, he would take the UK out of the EU without a deal on Halloween.

When asked if this was the best approach to Brexit, May suggested the next prime minister should focus on getting a deal through the Commons. The prime minister was thwarted three times by MPs in seeking to get the withdrawal agreement ratified.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/30/theresa-may-makes-veiled-attack-on-boris-johnson-brexit-policy



Hey May......................if your program of the "clusterfuck" goes through with this Johnson character.....................Ireland is out and then Scotland.....................your party May has done something that no country has been able to do for at least 700 years divide and conquer..........................the country and the crown...................
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