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TEHRAN, May 9 - Boris Johnson challenged Theresa May to sack him due to his growing discontent over the PM’s plans for Brexit, as he has no plans of quitting, The Times reports, adding to recent social media tensions between Tory backbenchers.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) – Boris Johnson challenged Theresa May to sack him due to his growing discontent over the PM’s plans for Brexit, as he has no plans of quitting, The Times reports, adding to recent social media tensions between Tory backbenchers.
It’s the first time Johnson has publicly criticized PM May over her Brexit plans, which risks bringing out into the open a split in the cabinet. A slight majority were said to be against the PM’s supposed favored option of a “customs partnership” in a meeting last week, The Independent reports.
The foreign secretary returned from his recent visit to the US, which included an appearance on the conservative TV show Fox and Friends, to face Theresa May at the cabinet table yesterday. He no doubt had to explain comments he made to the Daily Mail, in which he characterized the customs partnership as “a crazy system whereby you end up collecting the tariffs on behalf of the EU at the UK frontier.”
It follows a period of open discontent on social media from Tory ‘remain’ backbenchers – such as Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill – towards hardline Brexiteers. Soames told Jacob Rees-Mogg and his European Research Group (ERG) on Twitter to stop holding Theresa May and the “pragmatic centre” to “ransom” over their demands for the Britain's Brexit plans.
Gary Streeter, MP for South West Devon, said that a period of silence from Rees-Mogg would be welcomed by “us in the loyal mainstream.”
Source: RT
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