LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit blueprint got here under heavy attack on Monday, with pro-Brexit figurehead Boris Johnson calling it a give up that arms "victory" to EU.
Johnson, who resigned as international secretary in July over May's proposed future dating between London and Brussels, launched a fierce broadside at the PM to kick off parliament's go back to industry after its summer wreck.
Meanwhile, 20 MPs in May's centre-right Conservative Party publically pledged to reject her so-called Chequers plan, which would keep Britain just about the EU on industry.
The unrest comes as parliament returns on Tuesday, with just weeks to move sooner than the mid-October deadline set by way of London and Brussels to strike a withdrawal settlement.
May's sea of troubles swelled after the EU's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier strongly adversarial her blueprint, announcing it might lead to the downfall of European integration.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, Johnson -- the bookmakers' favourite to take over from May -- mentioned Britain has "gone into battle with the white flag fluttering over our leading tank".
"The inevitable outcome is a victory for the EU, with the UK lying flat on the canvas with 12 stars circling symbolically over our semi-conscious head," he mentioned.
Johnson claimed the real "scandal" was "not that we have failed, but that we have not even tried" on Brexit.
Responding to Johnson's attack, May's legit spokesman mentioned: "Boris Johnson resigned over Chequers. There's no new ideas in this article to respond to.
"What we need presently is severe management with a significant plan and that is the reason exactly what the rustic has with this high minister and this Brexit plan."
The plan envisages Britain leaving the only marketplace however staying in a unfastened industry house for items and agri-foods via a customs deal and not unusual rulebook with the EU.
Johnson and his fellow hardline Brexiteers assume the Chequers plan, named after the PM's country place of abode, assists in keeping Britain too closely aligned to the bloc.
Twenty Conservative MPs made a joint public dedication Monday to block May's proposal, becoming a member of the StandUp4Brexit marketing campaign.
They mentioned Chequers would abate Britain's talent to strike its own unfastened industry deals, lower Northern Ireland off from the rest of the UK and keep the European judiciary ruling over Britain.
May's Conservative minority govt has a running majority of 9 votes in parliament's 650-seat decrease House of Commons, because of the backing of Northern Ireland's 9 Democratic Unionist Party MPs.
However, the Commons chamber is widely split into four camps.
Some MPs in the end need Britain to stay within the EU; some need a complete wreck with Brussels; some back Chequers; whilst others need a other form of Brexit.
Former Brexit secretary David Davis, who like Johnson give up over Chequers, sponsored May to stick in her submit.
"It is absolutely conceivable to dump Chequers without changing leader," he instructed The Times newspaper.
Barnier opened the door to a short lived extension of talks to nail down a deal, announcing negotiations will have to be completed "by way of mid-November".
But, speaking to German newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he reiterated his hostility to Chequers.
"I strongly oppose the British proposal," he mentioned.
"We have a coherent market for items, services and products, capital and people -- our own ecosystem that has grown over many years. You can not play with it by way of choosing items."
May insisted Sunday that she would not be railroaded by way of Brussels as the talks come to the crunch.
"I will be able to not be pushed into accepting compromises at the Chequers proposals that are not in our national hobby," she wrote in The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
Britain is due to depart the EU at the end of March.
Johnson, who resigned as international secretary in July over May's proposed future dating between London and Brussels, launched a fierce broadside at the PM to kick off parliament's go back to industry after its summer wreck.
Meanwhile, 20 MPs in May's centre-right Conservative Party publically pledged to reject her so-called Chequers plan, which would keep Britain just about the EU on industry.
The unrest comes as parliament returns on Tuesday, with just weeks to move sooner than the mid-October deadline set by way of London and Brussels to strike a withdrawal settlement.
May's sea of troubles swelled after the EU's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier strongly adversarial her blueprint, announcing it might lead to the downfall of European integration.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, Johnson -- the bookmakers' favourite to take over from May -- mentioned Britain has "gone into battle with the white flag fluttering over our leading tank".
"The inevitable outcome is a victory for the EU, with the UK lying flat on the canvas with 12 stars circling symbolically over our semi-conscious head," he mentioned.
Johnson claimed the real "scandal" was "not that we have failed, but that we have not even tried" on Brexit.
Responding to Johnson's attack, May's legit spokesman mentioned: "Boris Johnson resigned over Chequers. There's no new ideas in this article to respond to.
"What we need presently is severe management with a significant plan and that is the reason exactly what the rustic has with this high minister and this Brexit plan."
The plan envisages Britain leaving the only marketplace however staying in a unfastened industry house for items and agri-foods via a customs deal and not unusual rulebook with the EU.
Johnson and his fellow hardline Brexiteers assume the Chequers plan, named after the PM's country place of abode, assists in keeping Britain too closely aligned to the bloc.
Twenty Conservative MPs made a joint public dedication Monday to block May's proposal, becoming a member of the StandUp4Brexit marketing campaign.
They mentioned Chequers would abate Britain's talent to strike its own unfastened industry deals, lower Northern Ireland off from the rest of the UK and keep the European judiciary ruling over Britain.
May's Conservative minority govt has a running majority of 9 votes in parliament's 650-seat decrease House of Commons, because of the backing of Northern Ireland's 9 Democratic Unionist Party MPs.
However, the Commons chamber is widely split into four camps.
Some MPs in the end need Britain to stay within the EU; some need a complete wreck with Brussels; some back Chequers; whilst others need a other form of Brexit.
Former Brexit secretary David Davis, who like Johnson give up over Chequers, sponsored May to stick in her submit.
"It is absolutely conceivable to dump Chequers without changing leader," he instructed The Times newspaper.
Barnier opened the door to a short lived extension of talks to nail down a deal, announcing negotiations will have to be completed "by way of mid-November".
But, speaking to German newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he reiterated his hostility to Chequers.
"I strongly oppose the British proposal," he mentioned.
"We have a coherent market for items, services and products, capital and people -- our own ecosystem that has grown over many years. You can not play with it by way of choosing items."
May insisted Sunday that she would not be railroaded by way of Brussels as the talks come to the crunch.
"I will be able to not be pushed into accepting compromises at the Chequers proposals that are not in our national hobby," she wrote in The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
Britain is due to depart the EU at the end of March.
British PM Theresa May's Brexit blueprint blasted by Boris Johnson
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