Eight cabinet ministers worried about UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit proposals gathered at a meeting hosted by Andrea Leadsom, a critic of May’s customs union backstop idea, to plan their next step. Lord Hague, the former Conservative leader, says that it is now time for the UK to go "full throttle" with preparations for a no-deal Brexit and prepare itself "psychologically and politically". The meeting, which was attended by the prime minister’s chief whip Gavin Williamson, foreign secretary Boris Johnson and environment minister Michael Gove, came as May prepares for her first Cabinet meeting since she won an election European Council President Donald Tusk said a no-deal Brexit was more likely than ever, but added “it always seems impossible until it’s done”. May was expected to win support for her plan at a cabinet meeting although former foreign secretary Lord Hague said Britain should prepare for no deal.
Eight cabinet ministers worried about UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit proposals gathered at a meeting hosted by Andrea Leadsom, a critic of May’s customs union backstop idea, to plan their next step. The meeting, which was attended by the prime minister’s chief whip Gavin Williamson, foreign secretary Boris Johnson and environment minister Michael Gove, came as May prepares for her first Cabinet meeting since she won an election European Council President Donald Tusk said a no-deal Brexit was more likely than ever, but added “it always seems impossible until it’s done”. May was expected to win support for her plan at a cabinet meeting although former foreign secretary Lord Hague said Britain should prepare for no deal.