Remain Tories are now deliberately creating uncertainty in a plot to derail Brexit, and Hammond must go, says UKIP
Published Jul 31, 2017
The anti-Brexit faction in the government, led by reprieved Chancellor
Philip Hammond, are now actively promoting confusion and uncertainty, as part of
their strategy to undermine Brexit negotiations and reverse the process, says
UKIP.
Following the Chancellor’s statement in French newspaper Le Monde that
the UK would not create a more favourable corporate tax regime following Brexit,
UKIP interim leader Steve Crowther said:
“Last year Philip Hammond suggested that if the UK were not well treated
in the negotiations, he would adjust the UK’s tax regime to make it more
competitive for attracting inward investment – leading to outrage in the EU
hierarchy and Labour's charge of turning Britain into a ‘tax haven’.
“Now, in a French newspaper he has said the opposite. Two things are
clear: first, that there is a calculated, multi-faceted strategy among the
Remain camp to derail Brexit by all and any means; and second, that in the
absence of the pro-Brexit cabinet, Philip Hammond is prepared to create this
uncertainty for business by arguing with himself, in French, which presumably he
believes the rest of us stupid Brexiteers can’t read.
“Hammond must be removed, immediately. He is undermining business
confidence and openly working towards the continuation of open borders and the
free movement of people which the British people comprehensively rejected last
year".
Gerard Batten MEP, the UKIP Brexit spokesman added, said "This is
entirely predictable given that the Prime Minister is still at heart a remainer
and put remainers in key positions to achieve a remain
result".
