“What’s the point of having manifestos when people abandon them?" (Image: GETTY )
The former Tory Minister made the impassioned plea at a Brexit Party rally yesterday in London. Ms Widdecombe, who is standing in the south-west of England to be a Brexit Party MEP, previously served as a Conservative MP for more than two decades. The outspoken Brexiteer announced her support for the Brexit Party earlier this year.
She asserted: “What’s the point of having manifestos when people abandon them?
“We have a nation who wants to leave the EU and a Parliament who wants to remain.”
The Conservative Party’s 2017 general election manifesto includes a pledge to take the UK out of both the customs union and single market.
However the deal Theresa May negotiated with Brussels includes a customs union ‘backstop’, designed to prevent any hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.