In a highly unusual move, Chief Whip Julian Smith attacked Cabinet members over the ‘worst example of ill-discipline in British political history’.
He said that the government should have told people they would have to accept a softer form of exiting theChief Whip Julian Smith arrives for a cabinet meeting lawmakers vote for the government, makes the comments in a BBC documentary to be broadcast Monday.Smith said the government ‘should have just been clearer the consequences of that, the parliamentary arithmetic, would mean that this would be inevitably a kind of softer type of Brexit.
Mr Smith said the result of the poll meant that Mrs May simply did not have enough MPs to back a harder version of Brexit.‘The thing that people forget is that the Conservative Party went to get a majority in order to deliver Brexit failed to get a majority,’ the chief whip said. ‘The Government as a whole probably should just have been clearer on the consequences of that. The parliamentary arithmetic would mean that this would be inevitably a softer type of Brexit.’
While the strategy was apparently misjudged, Mr Smith said he was ‘frustrated’ by MPs who ‘don’t see the light as clearly as I do’.
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