Philip Davies, a famously long-standing and committed Brexiteer, is among their number.
It amounts to wishful thinking, not a workable, sustainable answer. And it’s not as easy to implement as some of its advocates make out.
We currently have it at 189 declared for May, versus the 31 publicly opposed, and 93 undeclared.
“My understanding is that the rest of the world trades on WTO rules with independent free trade agreements.”
How the far left uses a feedback loop to shut down people in the short term – and ideas in the long.
The Conservative MP says that the Chancellor “needs to have the Prime Minister’s back, and he doesn’t”.
“She has to come out next week…and assert her authority to stop people like Grant Shapps from organising these pathetic little lists.”
Plus: Leadsom comes up on the rails. Why men should never wear red trousers. And: 100 years on from the Battle of the Somme.
She accuses the PM and Chancellor of behaving “almost like a pair of school bullies”.
There were 26 critical questions from Conservative backbenchers on the Government’s EU referendum leaflet yesterday and 5 supportive ones.
Twenty five Tory MPs joined Labour and the SNP in opposing liberalisation, and provided the Government’s margin of defeat.
Highlights of the debate, including contributions by Caroline Spelman, Crispin Blunt, Nadine Dorries and Dr Liam Fox.