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Interesting piece on the Telegraph website this evening, if only Jezza could be like Kinnock.
Today, Nick Boles, a former minister who has threatened to resign the whip in the event of a no-deal Brexit, steps up a row with Brexiteers by comparing Tories backing a no-deal outcome to the Militant "extremists" in Labour who were faced down by Neil Kinnock in 1985. Thirty three years ago a brave Labour leader confronted the extremists in his party and railed against the ‘grotesque chaos’ that a militant Labour council was inflicting on the great city of Liverpool," he writes in this newspaper. "It would be equally grotesque for a Conservative government to start rationing medicines and mobilising troops to cope with their failure to secure a negotiated settlement to Brexit." Yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn drew criticism from Remain supporters in his party for saying he would continue to pursue Brexit if his party won a snap general election in 2019.
Mrs Leadsom's comments come after MPs including Mr Boles, tabled an amendment to the Finance Bill intended to prevent the Government implementing no-deal plans without the explicit consent of Parliament. Asked about the amendment, Mrs Leadsom suggested that ministers would ultimately carry on even if it was implemented and the Commons voted to halt provisions for leaving without a deal. "The Government will have to, as a competent Government, continue to prepare for all eventualities," she said. "That is Government policy."