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| Andrea Leadsom has said she will not attempt to renegotiate the Brexit deal and insisted she would pursue a managed no deal if Conservative MPs and members back her as the next prime minister. | Andrea Leadsom has said she will not attempt to renegotiate the Brexit deal and insisted she would pursue a managed no deal if Conservative MPs and members back her as the next prime minister. |
| Leadsom said she would pass legislation to protect EU citizens but also attempt to secure side deals based on the withdrawal agreement to keep goods moving, a suggestion the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has explicitly ruled out. | Leadsom said she would pass legislation to protect EU citizens but also attempt to secure side deals based on the withdrawal agreement to keep goods moving, a suggestion the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has explicitly ruled out. |
| Her announcement came as her leadership rival Sajid Javid said he would seek a renegotiation of the Irish backstop based on alternative technological arrangements for the border, which he pledged the UK would fund in full. | |
| Leadsom, the former leader of the House of Commons, who resigned days before May announced her departure, suggested the withdrawal agreement cannot be reworked and the UK must leave without a deal on 31 October. | |
| She said she believed “the withdrawal agreement is dead, that we can’t reopen the withdrawal agreement bill and the UK parliament won’t vote for it”. | She said she believed “the withdrawal agreement is dead, that we can’t reopen the withdrawal agreement bill and the UK parliament won’t vote for it”. |
| Leadsom, speaking on the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show after an interview in the Sun, insisted her plan was not no deal but a “managed exit”. | Leadsom, speaking on the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show after an interview in the Sun, insisted her plan was not no deal but a “managed exit”. |
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| “Even if, to use the common parlance, we were to leave with no deal, there would be arrangements in place,” she said. “What I’m suggesting is making an offer to the EU for things that were already agreed in the withdrawal agreement, that will enable us to leave with a managed exit.” | “Even if, to use the common parlance, we were to leave with no deal, there would be arrangements in place,” she said. “What I’m suggesting is making an offer to the EU for things that were already agreed in the withdrawal agreement, that will enable us to leave with a managed exit.” |
| Barnier has previously warned there cannot be “mini-deals” if the UK crashes out of the bloc. | |
| Leadsom said she would seek to speak directly to member states about the way forward. | Leadsom said she would seek to speak directly to member states about the way forward. |
| “At the end of the day, European politicians face the ballot box as do all of us politicians. It is in all of our interests first to move on, they don’t want us hanging around for the next couple of years … at the same time we all want to see the smoothest exit possible,” she said. | “At the end of the day, European politicians face the ballot box as do all of us politicians. It is in all of our interests first to move on, they don’t want us hanging around for the next couple of years … at the same time we all want to see the smoothest exit possible,” she said. |
| Javid, speaking on the same programme, said he would focus on a solution based on the only Brexit deal that has passed parliament, the amendment by Sir Graham Brady to replace the backstop with “alternative arrangements”. | |
| He said more needed to be done to build goodwill with the Irish government. “What I would do is make a grand gesture to Ireland that we would cover all their costs – the upfront costs, the running costs – of a new digitised border,” he said. “I think it could be done in a couple of years but I think we could cover their costs.” | |
| Leadsom dismissed the possibility that parliament could prevent Britain leaving without a deal, saying she believed a prime minister pursuing a “managed exit” and guaranteeing citizens’ rights would not lose a confidence vote. | |
| “Quite honestly, with sensible measures … that parliamentarians would want to see in place … I do honestly believe that it would be workable,” she said. | “Quite honestly, with sensible measures … that parliamentarians would want to see in place … I do honestly believe that it would be workable,” she said. |
| Javid said he would not want to extend Brexit beyond the end of October, but would not ignore parliament if it forced his hand. “I’m clear that my plan would be to leave on October 31. I want to leave with a deal but if I have to choose between no-deal and no Brexit I would pick no deal,” he said. | |
| Asked if he would ever contemplate another extension, he said: “That’s not something I would do, but we are a parliamentary democracy and what we’ve seen in the last few months is parliament has taken on some extraordinary powers to initiate its own legislation, so if it’s statute, if it’s the law, I would not break the law if I was prime minister, of course I would observe the law.” | |
| Other Tory leadership hopefuls fleshed out their Brexit proposals across the Sunday newspapers. | Other Tory leadership hopefuls fleshed out their Brexit proposals across the Sunday newspapers. |
| Sources close to the environment secretary, Michael Gove, suggested he was prepared to delay Brexit until the end of next year rather than leave without a deal on 31 October. | Sources close to the environment secretary, Michael Gove, suggested he was prepared to delay Brexit until the end of next year rather than leave without a deal on 31 October. |
| “Simply trying to go for no deal before the UK is properly prepared will lead to a general election with Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street and risks Brexit being cancelled altogether,” the source told the Sunday Telegraph. | “Simply trying to go for no deal before the UK is properly prepared will lead to a general election with Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street and risks Brexit being cancelled altogether,” the source told the Sunday Telegraph. |
| The former health secretary Matt Hancock also wrote to colleagues on Sunday setting out plans to renegotiate the Brexit deal, but warned leaving without a deal on 31 October would be unrealistic because of the likelihood of it being blocked by parliament. | |
| In a letter to MPs, he said “a no-deal Brexit is not a policy choice available to the next prime minister”. | In a letter to MPs, he said “a no-deal Brexit is not a policy choice available to the next prime minister”. |
| It’s time to get real about how to deliver Brexit.My Brexit Delivery Plan is the only credible plan to leave by 31 October.So let’s deliver Brexit and focus on the future #LetsMoveForward pic.twitter.com/m6jmlVG4Hv | It’s time to get real about how to deliver Brexit.My Brexit Delivery Plan is the only credible plan to leave by 31 October.So let’s deliver Brexit and focus on the future #LetsMoveForward pic.twitter.com/m6jmlVG4Hv |
| Senior moderate Tories from the One Nation group, which include Amber Rudd and David Gauke, are still considering which candidates to back. | Senior moderate Tories from the One Nation group, which include Amber Rudd and David Gauke, are still considering which candidates to back. |
| On Sunday, Gauke, the justice secretary, backed Rory Stewart, the outsider candidate and current international development secretary, who has ruled out a no-deal exit. | |
| “I’ve seen his ability to be both strategic and on top of the details as a minister,” Gauke said. “He’s an excellent communicator, I think he has got an ability to connect with people, he’s got an ability to bring people together in order to find a way through the Brexit impasse and I think he could win a general election.” | “I’ve seen his ability to be both strategic and on top of the details as a minister,” Gauke said. “He’s an excellent communicator, I think he has got an ability to connect with people, he’s got an ability to bring people together in order to find a way through the Brexit impasse and I think he could win a general election.” |
| Gauke said he would not be able to serve in a cabinet that actively pursued no deal. “I accept that we should prepare for it but if it is an objective in saying ‘no-deal is the right answer’ I wouldn’t support that policy,” he said, though he ruled out possibly voting against the government in a confidence vote. | Gauke said he would not be able to serve in a cabinet that actively pursued no deal. “I accept that we should prepare for it but if it is an objective in saying ‘no-deal is the right answer’ I wouldn’t support that policy,” he said, though he ruled out possibly voting against the government in a confidence vote. |
| The Tory grandee Ken Clarke also backed Stewart on Sunday, while the rest of the 40-strong group of One Nation MPs are likely to choose between Hancock, Stewart and Gove, who has been endorsed by the former education secretary Nicky Morgan. | The Tory grandee Ken Clarke also backed Stewart on Sunday, while the rest of the 40-strong group of One Nation MPs are likely to choose between Hancock, Stewart and Gove, who has been endorsed by the former education secretary Nicky Morgan. |
| Rudd, regarded as the leading pro-European voice in the cabinet, wrote in the Observer on Sunday that candidates should concede that Britain will not leave at the end of October and start work on a new deal with Brussels. | Rudd, regarded as the leading pro-European voice in the cabinet, wrote in the Observer on Sunday that candidates should concede that Britain will not leave at the end of October and start work on a new deal with Brussels. |
| The work and pensions secretary, who met Boris Johnson this week to discuss a possible collaboration, is thought to have concluded their positions are irreconcilable. | |
| The former universities minister Sam Gyimah became the 13th candidate to enter the race on Sunday, and is the only one who has pledged to offer a second referendum. | |
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