The Brexit “war cabinet” broke up without an agreement early this week as ministers continued to openly challenge the post-EU withdrawal trade agreement but settled on a new “backstop” to avoid a hard Irish border.
Despite the disapproval of lead Brexiteers Boris Johnson and Micheal Gove, the ministers signed off the plans on Tuesday.
The news immediately concerned Eurosceptics with Jacob Rees-Mogg saying: “The risk of the Government using all its mental energy on the fallback position is that they create a position that is more attractive than a permanent deal.
“We have gone from a clear endpoint, to an extension, to a proposed further extension with no endpoint.
“The horizon seems to be unreachable. The bottom of the rainbow seems to be unattainable.
“People voted to leave, they did not vote for a perpetual purgatory.”
According to sources from pro-European Cabinet ministers, Mr Johnson and Mr Gove were “outgunned” during the meeting but reluctantly accepted the plans.
Mr Gove expressed his criticism and said the EU will use…
