Brexit news: Jacob Rees-Mogg delivers quip to claims he 'won't get the Brexit he wants'
Leading Brexiteer and Conservative MP for North East Somerset was told that he would not “get the kind of Brexit you want” by BBC host Andrew Neil. It comes as Prime Minister Theresa May is set to brief her cabinet at a crunch Cabinet meeting at Chequers on Friday on Britain’s future relationship with the EU. Speaking on Daily Politics, host Andrew Neil said: “Can we agree though that what we know so far and from all the mood music, you are not going to get the kind of Brexit you want?” The Tory MP delivered a quick response, adding to was not the Brexit he wanted, but the one the country voted for.
BBC Jacob Rees-Mogg responds after Neil claims 'you are not going to get the kind of Brexit you want'
He said: “We will wait and see. We will have to see what the Withdrawal and implementation Bill says, what it proposes. “We will have to see what comes out of the cabinet meeting on Friday and then how votes fall in the Parliament. “We are a long way from my feeling that we are not going to get the type of Brexit, not that I want, but what the country voted for. “17.4million people voted to be free from the European Union and for the great economic opportunities that will bring, that ability to take back control.”
We are a long way from my feeling that we are not going to get the type of Brexit, not that I want, but what the country voted for. Jacob Rees-Mogg
The host stepped in interrupting Jacob Rees-Mogg saying “we know all that”. Mr Rees-Mogg added: “I know but sometimes it is forgotten. We get into the weeds and we forget this glorious opportunity that the nation is taking for itself.” It comes as a Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has urged cabinet members to resist any soft-Brexit proposals from the Prime Minister. In a message on Twitter aimed at Mr Johnson, Mr Gove, Penny Mordaunt, Liam Fox, Andrea Leadsom and Chris Grayling, she urged them to "show your steel on Friday". She wrote: "Cabinet Brexiteers please stand up for the 17.4million people who voted to leave. We are relying on your.
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