Steve Baker, a former junior Minister at the Department for Exiting the European Union, warned that there will be 80 or more MPs voting against Prime Minister Theresa May’s Chequers Brexit plan at the party conference. And, the part will suffer from “catastrophic split”. Instead, he urged May to go for the route of a free trade agreement with the terms laid down by European Council president Donald Tusk.
And he added, “if we come out of conference with her hoping to get Chequers through on the back of Labour votes, I think the EU negotiators would probably understand that if that were done, the Tory party would suffer the catastrophic split which thus far we have managed to avoid.”
Baker resigned earlier this year in opposition to the Chequers’ plan. The party conference will be held on September 30 to October 3.
