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Tory Brexit rebels to hold showdown meeting with Johnson

Planned talks come as David Gauke says national interest is priority when opposing no deal

Jessica Elgot Chief political correspondent @jessicaelgot Sun 1 Sep 2019 10.18 BST
theguardian.com

Rebellious former cabinet ministers will have a showdown meeting with Boris Johnson on Monday, as the former justice secretary David Gauke said he believed the national interest would come first if he faced deselection for opposing a no-deal Brexit.

Gauke, one of several ministers who resigned from the cabinet after Johnson became prime minister, is among a number of ex-cabinet ministers who will back moves in parliament next week to legislate against no deal.

A cross-party alliance of MPs opposed to no deal are expected to begin moves on Tuesday to table a bill mandating Johnson to ask the EU for a further extension to the UK’s membership, which they hope to complete including passage through the House of Lords by the beginning of next week before parliament is prorogued.

Gauke said he hoped Johnson would not follow through with reported threats that any Conservative MP who voted against the government next week would face deselection at the next election.

“Sometimes there is a point where ... you have to judge between your own personal interests and the national interest. And the national interest has to come first,” he told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday.

“But, I hope it doesn’t come to that, and I hope cooler and calmer heads will look at this and think that trying to split the Conservative party in this way is not a sensible way forward for the Conservative party, or indeed for the country.”
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