.@Jacob_Rees_Mogg speaks to @EvanHD about his three concerns with the PM’s Florence speech #newsnight pic.twitter.com/7vLawPZtj0
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) September 22, 2017
The likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Owen Paterson are grumbling about May’s speech – the Mogg articulated their concerns on Newsnight about free movement and ECJ oversight continuing during the transition. Other hard-to-please Brexiter backbenchers are satisfied though, IDS says he can live with the transition so long as it is time-limited and John Redwood has given his backing:
The PM made no express offer of cash, and stressed that budgets have to be talked about alongside trade and the future relationship.
— John Redwood (@johnredwood) September 22, 2017
As Guido has said since June, most Tory Brexiters are fine with a transition so long as it is time-limited to two years and the end destination is fully out of all the institutions of the EU. The question that matters is what our future relationship with the EU will look like, at some point May has to give an answer that satisfies Leave voters and Cabinet ministers…
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