{"id":15017,"date":"2019-04-09T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15017"},"modified":"2019-04-09T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T08:29:00","slug":"tory-mp-quits-eurosceptic-erg-for-endangering-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15017","title":{"rendered":"Tory MP quits Eurosceptic ERG for &#8216;endangering Brexit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>This item is taken from the BBC News Website. A brave move and so very right.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"with-extracted-share-icons\">\n<div class=\"story-body__mini-info-list-and-share\">\n<div class=\"story-body__mini-info-list-and-share-row\">\n<div class=\"mini-info-list-wrap\">\n<p>A Tory MP has quit the Eurosceptic European Research Group, claiming a &#8220;hardcore element of &#8216;Unicorn&#8217; dreamers [are] now actually endangering Brexit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"topic-tags\">\n<div id=\"u23185899201780558\">\n<div class=\"tags-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body__inner\">\n<p>Daniel Kawczynski voted against Theresa May&#8217;s Brexit deal twice, before deciding to back her withdrawal agreement last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Shropshire MP accused the backbench Conservative group of preventing the deal from passing in the Commons.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was worried this could &#8220;lead to possibly no Brexit at all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kawczynski told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme he thought the ERG was &#8220;part of the problem in actually getting the withdrawal agreement across the finishing line&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And he opposed a call from the group&#8217;s deputy chairman Mark Francois for Tory MPs to have a vote to show they had lost faith in Mrs May.<\/p>\n<p>Under Tory party rules, another formal leadership challenge against Mrs May cannot take place until December, after she\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-46547246\">won a vote of confidence<\/a>\u00a0at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do disagree with Mark Francois on that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think the time has come for another leadership contest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we have to abide by the rules our party has set.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This item is taken from the BBC News Website. A brave move and so very right. A Tory MP has quit the Eurosceptic European Research Group, claiming a &#8220;hardcore element of &#8216;Unicorn&#8217; dreamers [are] now actually endangering Brexit&#8221;. Daniel Kawczynski voted against Theresa May&#8217;s Brexit deal twice, before deciding to back her withdrawal agreement last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5,4],"class_list":["post-15017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15021,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15017\/revisions\/15021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}