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Tory MP says joining in EU elections would be 'existential threat' to party [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Tory MP says joining in EU elections would be ‘existential threat’ to party
Education minister Nadhim Zahawi says parliament needs to ‘act quickly’ on Brexit
Aamna Mohdin
Sat 6 Apr 2019 10.25 BST Last modified on Sat 6 Apr 2019 11.08 BST
Theresa May has been warned that a long delay to Brexit could deal a fatal blow to the Conservatives, with one minister claiming that participating in the European elections would be a “suicide note” for the party.
The warning came as the government continues intensive talks to find a Brexit compromise with Labour.
The education minister Nadhim Zahawi told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think it’s important that parliament acts quickly now to decide what it is in favour of. We need to do that quickly because I think going into the EU elections for the Conservative party, or indeed for the Labour party, and telling our constituents why we haven’t been able to deliver Brexit I think would be an existential threat.
“I would go further and say it would be the suicide note of the Conservative party.”
Zahawi said that if Labour and the government failed to find a joint approach, then MPs should be forced to find a compromise through a preferential voting system to find a solution before the European elections.
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Education minister Nadhim Zahawi says parliament needs to ‘act quickly’ on Brexit
Aamna Mohdin
Sat 6 Apr 2019 10.25 BST Last modified on Sat 6 Apr 2019 11.08 BST
Theresa May has been warned that a long delay to Brexit could deal a fatal blow to the Conservatives, with one minister claiming that participating in the European elections would be a “suicide note” for the party.
The warning came as the government continues intensive talks to find a Brexit compromise with Labour.
The education minister Nadhim Zahawi told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think it’s important that parliament acts quickly now to decide what it is in favour of. We need to do that quickly because I think going into the EU elections for the Conservative party, or indeed for the Labour party, and telling our constituents why we haven’t been able to deliver Brexit I think would be an existential threat.
“I would go further and say it would be the suicide note of the Conservative party.”
Zahawi said that if Labour and the government failed to find a joint approach, then MPs should be forced to find a compromise through a preferential voting system to find a solution before the European elections.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/06/tory-mp-nadhim-zahawi-says-joining-in-eu-elections-would-be-conservative-party-suicide-note
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