‘Three’ Brexit-backing Cabinet Ministers are threatening to quit if Theresa May backs a People’s Vote
Three Ministers will go if the PM agrees a confirmatory referendum after talks with Labour while an insider said 'it’s incensed people like Penny Mordaunt'
BREXIT-backing Cabinet Ministers are threatening to quit if Theresa May backs a People’s Vote – after the Chancellor said it was a “credible” idea.
The Sun can reveal furious Ministers discussed a ‘pact’ at a meeting of the ‘pizza club’ organised by Andrea Leadsom on Wednesday night.
Sources claim at least THREE will go if the PM agrees to a confirmatory referendum after talks with Labour. One insider said: “People like Penny [Mordaunt] are furious over this.”
It came as ex-Minister Andrew Percy told The Sun he would resign the Tory whip and ‘cross the floor’ if the PM goes back to the nation over Brexit.
He added he was sure other backbenchers would quit the party – wiping out the Prime Minister’s working majority of six in the Commons.
Mr Percy said: “No one has made it clear to me why Leave has to win twice but Remain only has to win once. If we backed a second referendum, I would not be able to take the Conservative whip.”
Philip Hammond incensed Tory MPs on Wednesday by saying a second EU referendum was a “perfectly credible proposition”.
He said a fresh public vote “deserves” to be considered by MPs along with other different Brexit options.
But Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson – who was at the ‘pizza club’ meeting – hit back yesterday to rubbish the idea. He said: “Let’s be totally clear.
“The British People have already voted in a referendum. They’ve said they want to leave the EU.”
Neither a spokesman for Andrea Leadsom nor Penny Mordaunt would comment.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock yesterday said there could be more resignations over Brexit. He said a second referendum would be “divisive, not decisive”.
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