Nick Clegg, one of the country’s most vocal Remain supporters, has backed hardline Eurosceptics in the Cabinet telling them to reject Theresa May’s proposed Brexit stance with Brussels. The former Liberal Democrat leader said the Prime Minister’s plan, called the Facilitated Customs Arrangement, would be “unworkable” and spark a “smuggling boom”. Mrs May faces an almighty task on Friday to try and unite her warring Cabinet behind her proposals, which Brexiteers believe will keep Britain inside parts of the single market and effectively kill any chance of signing a trade deal with the US. Right to reject Brexit plan The plans are to be discussed at length during a gruelling 12 hour summit at the Prime Minister’s country retreat Chequers. But Mr Clegg who is an ardent supporter of Britain staying inside the European Union dismissed Downing Street’s latest plan. “I hate to say this, but Brexiters would be right to reject [the] PM’s plan,” he tweeted. “Dual EU/UK tariffs would create vast red tape, smugglers would boom, Parliament would be humiliated. MPs would rubber stamp goods/agri rules from Brussels – right to refuse would never be used as costs too high. “Better to put this costly, bureaucratic, unworkable proposal out of its misery ASAP. Whatever Brexit means, it can’t be this,” he added. Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/nick-clegg-gives-backing-to-eurosceptics-over-theresa-mays-brexit-plan/
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