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| EU referendum: PM should stay if UK backs Brexit, says Grayling | EU referendum: PM should stay if UK backs Brexit, says Grayling |
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| David Cameron should stay on as PM to lead negotiations with the EU if the country votes to leave, cabinet minister Chris Grayling has said | David Cameron should stay on as PM to lead negotiations with the EU if the country votes to leave, cabinet minister Chris Grayling has said |
| Mr Grayling, who is campaigning for the UK to leave the EU, told the BBC: "I actively want David Cameron to stay." | Mr Grayling, who is campaigning for the UK to leave the EU, told the BBC: "I actively want David Cameron to stay." |
| Another Conservative MP, David Davis, also said he could remain PM, but would need someone else to lead Brexit talks. | Another Conservative MP, David Davis, also said he could remain PM, but would need someone else to lead Brexit talks. |
| It comes after former chancellor Ken Clarke suggested the PM "wouldn't last 30 seconds if he lost the referendum". | It comes after former chancellor Ken Clarke suggested the PM "wouldn't last 30 seconds if he lost the referendum". |
| Although Mr Cameron is campaigning for the UK to remain in the European Union, many of his Conservative MPs, and some members of his own cabinet, are campaigning to leave. | Although Mr Cameron is campaigning for the UK to remain in the European Union, many of his Conservative MPs, and some members of his own cabinet, are campaigning to leave. |
| EU referendum: In depth | |
| The UK's EU vote: All you need to know | |
| EU for beginners: A guide | |
| UK and the EU: Better off out or in? | |
| A-Z guide to EU-speak | |
| Who's who: The Vote Leave team | |
| Who's who: The Remain campaign | |
| Mr Clarke, a veteran pro-European Conservative, told the BBC last week Mr Cameron would not be able to remain prime minister if the UK votes to leave the EU in the 23 June referendum. | Mr Clarke, a veteran pro-European Conservative, told the BBC last week Mr Cameron would not be able to remain prime minister if the UK votes to leave the EU in the 23 June referendum. |
| 'Disastrous' | |
| But Commons leader Mr Grayling told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: "I actively want David Cameron to stay, not only because he's a very good prime minister, but because he actually has got the relationships we need around Europe to build the negotiating process. | But Commons leader Mr Grayling told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: "I actively want David Cameron to stay, not only because he's a very good prime minister, but because he actually has got the relationships we need around Europe to build the negotiating process. |
| "It would be disastrous, in my view, for the Leave cause if we vote to leave and then we get distracted by a Conservative leadership contest. He must stay, I want him to stay." | |
| Asked if Mr Cameron would be able to negotiate Britain's exit from the EU, having campaigned for the other side, Mr Grayling said: "Well, I want him to be part of a team, to lead a team, but it needs people who want to leave in that team as well." | Asked if Mr Cameron would be able to negotiate Britain's exit from the EU, having campaigned for the other side, Mr Grayling said: "Well, I want him to be part of a team, to lead a team, but it needs people who want to leave in that team as well." |
| Mr Davis, the former shadow home secretary who Mr Cameron beat for the Conservative leadership in 2005, told the programme he believed the PM could stay on but would not be able to lead negotiations to leave: "He'd have to appoint somebody who the public had faith in, who his own party had faith in, but most importantly who believed in the negotiation. If he did that I don't see any reason why he shouldn't go on." | |
| 'Terrible job' | |
| But Suzanne Evans, the former UKIP deputy chairwoman who is on the board of Vote Leave, said Mr Cameron had made a "terrible job" of his EU negotiations ahead of the referendum and she believed he should resign, if the UK votes to leave: "I don't particularly want him to be negotiating on our behalf." | |
| The official referendum campaigning period began on Friday and both sides have been stepping up their arguments about the potential impact of leaving the EU on the NHS and the economy. | |
| Labour's Yvette Cooper told the BBC it was wrong to suggest the UK could leave the EU but remain in the single market without agreeing to European rules on freedom of movement. | |
| She warned it could cost "£100bn worth of trade" and could lose the manufacturing jobs "our industrial towns depend on". | |
| "It's working class people across Britain who will be hardest hit if we end up losing those jobs". | |
| But Mr Grayling said: "We keep talking about our access to their markets. There are millions of European jobs that depend on British consumers." |