May Should Fire Hammond for Brexit ‘Sabotage,’ Nigel Lawson Says

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May should fire Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond because of his negative warnings about Brexit, said Nigel Lawson, a Tory who held the finance minister’s job in the 1980s.

Hammond said on Wednesday the U.K. government needs to prepare for “the possibility of a bad-tempered breakdown in negotiations where we have non-cooperation and the worst-case scenario, even a situation where people are not necessarily acting in their own economic interests.” He also raised the ire of supporters of Britain’s departure from the European Union by saying he would only start spending money on preparations for a “no deal” scenario at “the very last moment.”