Rees-Mogg Delivers Ultimatum Over May's Post-Brexit Customs Plan
Hardline Brexiteers to Keep Pressuring May, Bluebay's Riley Says
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He insists it’s neither a threat nor an ultimatum, but Conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg’s latest challenge to Prime Minister Theresa May over the type of Brexit to pursue feels a lot like both.
Rees-Mogg effectively warned that his group of Euroskeptic lawmakers would withdraw its support if May goes with her preferred so-called customs partnership with the European Union after Brexit. It would “leave us de facto in the customs union and the single market” Rees-Mogg told the BBC, reneging on the referendum vote to leave the bloc. Privately, one of those involved with Rees-Mogg’s group said it was a line the government couldn’t cross.