By Jason Groves Political Editor
Published: 23:04 GMT, 20 March 2019 | Updated: 23:14 GMT, 20 March 2019
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Tory Remainers reacted angrily last night after Mrs May ‘caved in’ to Cabinet Eurosceptics by ruling out a long delay to Brexit.
Dominic Grieve, who has led the efforts in Parliament to frustrate Brexit, suggested he and his colleagues had been outmanoeuvred.
The sight of Mrs May ruling out a long delay to Brexit at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday was ‘the worst moment I have experienced since I came into the Commons’, he said.
Dominic Grieve, pictured, who has led the efforts in Parliament to frustrate Brexit, suggested he and his colleagues had been outmanoeuvred
In an emotional speech to MPs, the former attorney general said: ‘I have never felt more ashamed to be a member of the Conservative Party or to be asked to lend her support. She spent most of her time castigating the House for its misconduct.
‘At no stage did she pause to consider whether it is, in fact, the way she is leading this Government that might be contributing to the situation.’
He added that while he had ‘great sympathy’ for the Prime Minister and the position she finds herself in: ‘I could have wept – wept to see her reduced to these straits and wept to see the extent she was simply zigzagging all over the place rather than standing up for what the national interest must be.’
Unless Mrs May ‘at the 11th hour and 59th minute’ changes her choice of her deal or No Deal ‘we are going to spiral down into oblivion and the worst part of it all is that we will deserve it’, Mr Grieve said
The MP for Beaconsfield said the ‘underlying integrity which one hopes one will continue to see from Government even in difficult circumstances now seems to be fast running out and that troubles me very much’.
