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Tories want Theresa May to spearhead rebellion against Brexit bill

An amendment to the bill has a "good chance to significant support", according to rebels.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2020-09-13 10:13
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Conservative rebels want former Prime Minister Theresa May to front an in-party uprising against Boris Johnson’s plan to break international law and dismantle his Brexit deal with the EU.

According to reports in Business Insider a growing number of MPs are set to vote against the government in parliament next week, with people involved in drafting an amendment saying they feel it has “a good chance of significant support.”

The rebels are seeking to enlist Johnson’s predecessor to front the campaign against his plan after she spoke out against the moves last week.

May is one of three former leaders to have attacked Johnson’s moves, with Michael Howard and John Major warning it could damage our reputation for probity and respect for the rule of law.

Tory rebellion

Johnson is not use to facing backlash from his new intake of MPs, many of whom helped him to secure a sizeable 80-seat majority in December.

Since being elected he has enjoyed the support of the full party on most issues, but rumours of discontent among the ranks started to surface some time ago.

There is a widespread recognition in Westminster that Johnson’s Downing Street has made little effort to foster relations with Conservative MPs since winning a landslide in December.

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The prime minister has only properly addressed the 1922 committee of backbenchers twice since then, which has not gone unnoticed.

The task has undoubtedly been made harder by the coronavirus, which sent MPs home from parliament and has removed the usual collegiate atmosphere of Westminster that helps foster relations between backbench MPs and government whips and ministers.

Role-model status

Despite Mr Johnson’s attempts to drum up support for the Brexit bill, Tory chairman of the Commons defence committee Tobias Ellwood said on Saturday that he could not support the legislation without it being changed.

“Already this Bill is damaging brand UK, diminishing our role-model status as defender of global standards. As we go to the wire, let’s see more British statecraft – less Nixonian Madman Theory,” he tweeted.

Commons justice committee chairman Sir Bob Neill, who has tabled an amendment which he said would impose a “parliamentary lock” on any changes to the Withdrawal Agreement, said he still contends it contains “objectionable” elements.

Damian Green, who was Theresa May’s deputy when she was prime minister and is backing the amendment, was also understood to not have been won over by Mr Johnson’s argument.

Sir Roger Gale also remained a vehement critic, telling Times Radio: “If anybody is responsible, if it happens, for bringing the union down, it will be (chief aide Dominic) Cummings and Mr Johnson.”

Related: The Conservatives sold themselves as the vanguards of democracy – but they are the destroyers

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