UK heading for 'dilution of Brexit', says former minister

The United Kingdom is heading towards "a dilution of brexit", former cabinet minister theresa villiers has said.

The conservative mp, writing in the sunday telegraph, stated there has been "a actual danger" the UK will sign up to an agreement with brussels that can "maintain us within the eu in all however name".

Her feedback come amid developing tory party rifts over brexit.

Backbenchers criticised philip hammond this week for saying adjustments to united kingdom-european relations will be "very modest".

Ms villiers, who campaigned for a leave vote in the european referendum, stated she had lengthy "made the case for compromise and moderation" in the government's technique to negotiating brexit.

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However, she wrote, since the top minister "set out a formidable imaginative and prescient" a 12 months in the past, "the route of travel appears to have long gone in simplest one single direction: in the direction of a dilution of brexit".

The former northern eire secretary delivered that a deal which saved the United Kingdom within the ecu "in all but call" could "fail to respect the referendum result".

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The UK is due to depart the ecu union in march 2019, and negotiations are taking vicinity among the 2 sides.

Ms villiers is the contemporary senior conservative eurosceptic to talk out over perceived backsliding via the authorities.

One of the key questions is how near the buying and selling courting with europe could be, once the UK has left.

In advance this week the chancellor stated he hoped the UK and eu economies might simplest move "very modestly" aside after brexit, as they had been already "absolutely interconnected and aligned".

However mp jacob rees-mogg, one of the leading eurosceptic voices at the conservative benches, said that "near alignment" with the ecu after brexit would be unacceptable.

He warned theresa might also that if she added "brexit in name most effective", the tories might lose the next election.

Meanwhile, former tory celebration chairman furnish shapps has advised the prime minister to "name a date" while she will stand down, according to the mail on sunday.

Mr shapps stated he had now not submitted a letter to the birthday party's 1922 committee, calling for a management contest, however added "more and more my colleagues have".