Mogg:PM's custom plan is CRETINOUS
JACOB Rees -Mogg last night warned Theresa May against going ahead with a 'completely cretinous plan to strike a customs partnership with the EU.
The Tory Mp said the idea was 'the siliest thing I could possibly think of' and would be a 'betrayal of good sense.
A customs partnership, which would see Britain collecting tariffs on behalf of the EU for all goods that pass through the UK on the way to Europe, is one of the two options put forward by the Government to deal with customs arrangements after
Brexit
In an outspoken intervention, Rees Mogg also directed a warning shot at peers whom he said risk voting themselves into extinction by attempting to thwart
BREXIT.
The chairman of the Tory backbench European Research Group said it was a case of the
'PEERS against the PEOPLE'
after the Lords inflicted a series of defeats on legislation preparing for the country's
DEPARTURE FROM THE EU.
'I think their lordships are playing with fire and it would be a shame to burn down a
HISTORIC HOUSE,
he said.
His comments came after a petition calling for a referendum on abolishing the Lords passed the
100,000
signature mark, which could trigger a
DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT.
Mr Rees-Mogg, speaking at an event organised by the OPEN EUROPE think-tank, said peers
'have to decide whether they love ermine or the EU more'
The Government's plans for
BREXIT
have been dealt a series of blows in the Lords. with peers iflicting a defeat last week on the issue of
LEAVING THE CUSTOMS UNION.
Mr Rees-Mogg claimed that peers were breaching the convention that the House of Lords should not prevent a Government implementing a commitments made in its
ELECTION MANIFESTO.
They are trying to stop the largest ever public vote in our history,' he said. 'WE are in a position of
PEERS against the PEOPLE.
It is deeply unattractive and I think it is the weakest position for the House of Lords to be in. There is a problem with the House of Lords in that it is very condescending towards the
DEMOCRATIC VOTE'
They seem to think that they know better than
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