It’s all very chummy over at Conservatives for Reform in Europe, the pro-Remain group led by Nick Herbert. Eurosceptic Tory staffers note that Herbert employs as his taxpayer-funded parliamentary researcher one Georgia Hill, the daughter of EU commissioner and arch-Europhile Lord Hill, a close friend of the PM. Georgia joined nepotist Nick’s team in 2014 straight out of university. The sort of favour for a friend you usually see in Brussels…
Dominic Raab wrote in his letter of resignation…
“This is, at its heart, a matter of public trust,” he told the PM, concluding: “I cannot reconcile the terms of the proposed deal with the promises we made to the country in our manifesto at the last election… I believe that the regulatory regime proposed for Northern Ireland presents a very real threat to the integrity of the United Kingdom. I cannot support an indefinite backstop arrangement, where the EU holds a veto over our ability to exit…”
