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Arch-Remainer Amber Rudd finally admits Britain may have to settle for a No-Deal Brexit
ARCH-Remainer Amber Rudd has finally conceded Britain might have to settle for a No-Deal Brexit.
The Works and Pensions Secretary admitted a future prime minister would need the option during any negotiations.
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She told talkRADIO: “Both candidates have said No Deal is part of the armoury and I have accepted that... the situation is we are leaving by the end of October
but it would be so much better to get a deal.”
But she was condemned by fellow Remainers who said she had ditched her beliefs in a desperate bid to save her place in a Boris Johnson-led Cabinet.
Change UK leader Anna Soubry said it was clear ministerial privilege and elevation to the Lords were most important to her one-time Tory colleague. “It’s shameful,” she added.
In March, Ms Rudd, who backs Jeremy Hunt for party leader, was one of 13 Tories who defied the whip to help the Commons block a No Deal Brexit.
The previous month, she wrote a blistering newspaper article demanding Theresa May extended the Brexit talks rather than leave on March 29 without a deal.
But Ms Rudd said she had now accepted No Deal had to be an option.
Ms Rudd mocked Boris Johnson during the 2016 referendum campaign by saying you could not trust him to take you home in a car.
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Former Tory Nick Boles quipped: “So she will let Boris Johnson drive her home after all — so long as it’s in a ministerial limo.”
Friends of Ms Rudd insisted she was recognising realities. One said: “She asked May to delay and she did but it didn’t work. She pushed for talks with Labour, that didn’t work. She’s compromising as everyone has to.”
But a former Cabinet minister said: “She just wants a job. Simple as that.”
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