Jacob Rees-Mogg: Lords '˜playing with fire' in attempts to thwart Brexit
The Conservative MP, who leads the influential European Research Group, said it was “peers against the people” after the government’s Brexit legislation suffered a series of defeats in the upper chamber.
In a series of warnings to the government over Brexit, Mr Rees-Mogg said giving preferential treatment to EU citizens after Brexit would be a “racist” policy, described Prime Minister Theresa May’s approach to leaving the EU as “enigmatic”, and said her government’s proposals for a customs partnership with the EU were “completely cretinous”.
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Hide AdThe government is expected to try to overturn a Lords amendment on the customs union in the Commons and Mr Rees-Mogg warned would-be Tory rebels: “I don’t think it’s fine for people to tell their voters they are standing to leave the customs union and then not to do that.”
Mr Rees-Mogg hailed as “striking” the support for a petition calling for the abolition of the House of Lords, saying: “It would be a shame to burn down a historic house.”