The work and pensions secretary says Parliament cannot be ignored in a push to a 'far inferior' no-deal Brexit.
The Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has acknowledged that unemployment"could go up" if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal.
But after her apparent U-turn on no deal ahead of rejoining the cabinet under Boris Johnson, Ms Rudd cautioned her own boss against both ignoring the Commons and setting an election date to avoid a Parliamentary say on no deal. Asked if she could"back a situation where an election is held on purpose so that parliament does not have its say on no deal, she said that there had been lots of speculation.
Ms Rudd was speaking to the BBC in her first full interview after rejoining the cabinet, on a visit to female engineers working on the Thames Tideway infrastructure project.She said she was"jealous" of"every single pound" of the £2bn of new money earmarked towards no-deal Brexit preparations and wanted to see more money going towards Universal Credit, and ending the benefits freeze.
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