Brexit-sceptic Baroness ‘nearly lynched’ aboard cruise ship after giving pro-EU rant to guests
Baroness Patience Wheatcroft said she would do everything in her power to stop Britain leaving the EU
A PRO-EU baroness sparked mutiny aboard a cruise ship after lecturing passengers about the perils of Brexit.
Baroness Patience Wheatcroft had been invited to speak aboard the Queen Victoria cruise ship as it travelled from Rome to Athens last month.
However things turned sour aboard the luxury ship as the baroness set out her campaign for a second referendum and said she would do everything in her power to stop Britain leaving the EU.
One Brexiteer told the that the Baroness' speech sparked mutiny with several audience members walking out in protest.
Passenger Carol Clifford told the paper: “One man stood up and said what gave her and the House of Lords, an unelected body, the right to go against the will of the people?
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“My husband and I walked out and immediately wrote a letter to the entertainment manager complaining about Patience Wheatcroft and the content of her talk — and we weren’t the only ones. Everyone we talked to was disgusted.”
Former journalist and editor of the Wall Street Journal and Sunday Telegraph, Baroness Wheatcroft joined the House of Lords at the invitation of David Cameron in 2010.
Last month she suggested the Lords may try to delay Britain's exit from the EU but was told by Theresa May to "focus on getting behind" Brexit.
Baroness Wheatcroft said a second vote should be held when more details about leaving the EU are known, in a Guardian column in August.
She said: “The referendum was only advisory.
“The decision to leave the EU is made when article 50 is triggered. The government’s position, currently being fought out in a legal case destined for the supreme court, is that the prime minister has the power to pull that trigger by herself.
“Eminent constitutional lawyers argue convincingly both for and against this proposition. But whatever the law says, politics surely dictates that there should be a vote in parliament before such a far-reaching decision is taken.”
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