Despite a number of MPs announcing that they will back Theresa May’s Brexit now that she has said she will leave within weeks of it passing, senior members of the European Research Group have come out fighting this evening to insist the deal still doesn’t have the votes.
Steve Baker received what one source described as an ‘enormous standing ovation’. The source said: ‘His voice was cracking with emotion, so much so that at the end he was hugged by Jacob [Rees-Mogg] and others at the top table. We are not a hugging group.’
Baker’s speech included the following lines:
‘What is our liberty for if not to govern ourselves?’
‘Like all of you I have wrestled with my conscience about what to do.’
‘I could tear this place down and bulldoze it into the river.’
‘These fools and knaves and cowards are voting on things they don’t even understand.
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