A Tory former Cabinet minister today demanded a second referendum on Brexit as Theresa May faces a Commons showdown with her own MPs.
Justine Greening, the former Education Secretary, joined the chorus of both Remain and Leave voices coming out against the Prime Minister’s new ‘soft Brexit’ plan.
Ms Greening is now the third pro-EU Tory MP to publicly back a so-called ‘People’s Vote’ on the Brexit deal, after Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston. And she told the BBC others agree with her privately.
Her announcement heaps fresh pressure on Mrs May as she faces a rebellion from both sides in Commons votes tonight on her Customs Bill.
A furious row erupted over customs last week when the government unveiled plans to keep a “common rulebook” with the EU on goods imports.
Brexiteers say this will keep Britain shackled powerless to the EU – and both Boris Johnson and David Davis quit the Cabinet in protest. But Remainers say it does not go far enough.
Today Ms Greening said the plan was “the worst of both worlds” and called for the decision to be put to the people of Britain.
She warned otherwise, the deal will simply be voted down by Parliament in its entirety in October leaving the country in the lurch.
“Parliament’s deadlocked,” she told ITV’s Good Morning Britain. “Parliament works on party political lines and we’re trying to cope with something that isn’t party political, Brexit.
“And as far as…
