'Don't interfere with Brexit', Archbishop of Canterbury told
ustin Welby was reportedly in talks to chair citizens’ assemblies at Coventry Cathedral next month with leading Commons figures who were due to meet on Tuesday to discuss tactics to oppose the UK crashing out of the EU on 31 October, the Times has reported...
The former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith told the Times: “I generally don’t criticise the archbishop but he shouldn’t allow himself to be tempted into what is essentially a very political issue right now.”
Mark Francois, the vice-chairman of the European Research Group of Eurosceptic Tory MPs, said Britons were exhausted from being told why the result of the Brexit referendum should be overturned. He told the paper: “I suspect they will not be overjoyed by having it rubbed in by the archbishop of Canterbury to boot.”
Welby was also criticised by the pro-Brexit Labour MP Kate Hoey and Brexit MEPs, who called on Welby not to interfere with Brexit.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/27/dont-interfere-with-brexit-archbishop-of-canterbury-justin-welby-told
Who will rid us of this turbulent priest?! I am sure that IDS and Kate 'DUP MP for Vauxhall' Hoey regret that they can't stage a 21st century replay of Murder in the Cathedral!
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