Former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said Theresa May’s deal was ‘worse’ than staying in EU
Mr Raab said: 'I'm not going to advocate staying in the EU but I think this would be even worse'
EX-BREXIT Secretary Dominic Raab yesterday said Theresa May’s Brexit deal was “even worse” than staying in the EU.
In a bombshell intervention, the ex-Cabinet Minister said the PM’s blueprint would bind Britain to the same rules but without any control or voice over them.
Pro-EU campaigners immediately leapt on the comments to step up calls for a second Referendum.
Mr Raab quit last week the Cabinet last week - saying the PM’s deal with the EU failed to honour the outcome of the 2016 Referendum.
Speaking yesterday, he told the BBC: “I’m not going to advocate staying in the EU but if you presented me terms – this deal or EU membership - yes I think this would be even worse than that.”
Pro-EU campaigners said Leave voters must now be given the same opportunity to show if they have changed their minds.
Former Tory Minister Philip Lee said: “Credit to Dominic Raab for publicly saying he’d rather remain in the EU than accept the Government’s deal.
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“If it’s unacceptable to him how do we know that it’s acceptable to the 17.4 million people who voted Leave in 2016?
“We need to ask the British public.”
Labour’s David Lammy added: “If MP’s are allowed to change their minds the public must be given the same opportunity.”
The Sun Says
WHATEVER Dominic Raab says, Theresa May’s deal is better than staying in the EU.
Why? First, we would be out. The chance may never come again. Second, Brexit is what Britain chose when MPs handed us the decision — and it is a dangerous fantasy to think we could ever just return to life as it was before June 2016.
The nation would be hideously divided for decades. Euroscepticism would explode into hatred for a Brussels that bullied us into a rethink. There would be a surge in extremism. And a tsunami of rage at a London elite that nullified 17.4million mainly working-class votes.
We doubt Remain would win a second vote. Even if it did, life could not just go on like the first never happened.
It’s too late.