Boris Johnson will challenge Theresa May to demand a ‘buccaneering Brexit’ amid fears PM will ‘f*** this up’
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will spell out his vision for Brexit this week amid fears Theresa May has lost grip on what voters want
BORIS Johnson will throw down the gauntlet to Theresa May by demanding a “buccaneering” Brexit.
He plans to spell out his vision for a post-EU Britain as Brexiteers admit rapidly losing faith in Mrs May.
A BoJo ally said MPs feared she was “in danger of f****** this up” and added: “The stakes are too high.”
The Foreign Secretary is to spell out his vision of a “bold internationalist, liberal buccaneering Brexit”, the pal said.
His speech, still being drafted, would outline more “optimism and hope” than currently on offer.
No10 may be shown an advance copy but “won’t be able to stop us delivering it”, the friend added.
It follows Eurosceptic Tories’ fears that Britain would be a “vassal state” under the EU’s thumb in a post-Brexit transition period.
Two top MPs have urged colleagues to hand in letters of no confidence in Mrs May — amid reports that rebels are close to getting the 48 MPs needed for a ballot.
No10 slapped down Chancellor Philip Hammond last week for predicting “very modest” changes after Brexit.
But a senior Tory said they had warned party whips they would withdraw support for the PM if he was not axed.
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They said: “We’ve stayed our hand as we don’t want another election and it may destabilise leaving.
“But if it appears we’ll be stuck in ‘never-never land’, the duty would be to have a leader prepared to deliver what the country voted for.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg echoed that fury and said: “I’m against a Brexit in name only.”