David Cameron privately urges Remainer ministers to push PM towards a soft Brexit
A Tory MP further claimed that Mr Cameron continued to slam Mrs May's handling of Brexit by saying he 'thinks she's set in the course of never changing direction'
DAVID Cameron has privately urged Remainer ministers to push Theresa May into a soft Brexit, The Sun can reveal.
The former PM has been supportive of Mrs May in public.
But MPs who have met him in private say he has been heavily critical of Mrs May’s refusal to seek a cross-party consensus to get a deal through.
One minister who met him recently said Mr Cameron believes pursuing a customs union with the EU is the best way of getting Brexit “over the line” and save the 2016 referendum decision from being overturned.
He wants Remainer MPs to force the PM to change course and soften Brexit.
Mr Cameron delivered a brutal verdict of the PM’s handling of Brexit, telling one Remainer minister: “Theresa will always put the party’s interest first and will go with the party until the end.”
The Tory minister said the ex-PM “thinks she’s set in the course of never changing direction”.
A fortnight ago Mr Cameron said publicly that no deal would be a “disaster for our country” as he urged MPs to seek an extension.
Stopped outside his West London home, he gave his public backing to the PM, saying: “Her job is hard enough already without her immediate predecessor giving her running commentary so she has my support and I wish her well.”
In December it emerged Mr Cameron had even been advising Mrs May on how to break the Brexit deadlock in Parliament.
He had lobbied his successor to put a string of different options to a vote in Parliament – and backed the idea of holding indicative votes.
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