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Those preparing to block No Deal should add our final report, to be released this week, to their summer reading list.
Our future Conservative Party leadership needs to address quickly and effectively the problems which have led to the latter’s rise.
We need to re-discover our ability to spot the problems our constituents are facing and do something about them.
Any candidate who focuses solely on leaving the EU will hit a brick wall with the Parliamentary Party.
I am clear that if the Party decides to focus its appeal mainly towards Brexit Party supporters, our demise will be swift.
We have just 17 days from tomorrow now to do what voters told us to do on the doorsteps last Thursday – namely, ‘get Brexit sorted’.
The EU has already opened the door to starting discussions about such alternative arrangements the minute that the Withdrawal Agreement is approved.
We are not a party within a party. We simply want to remind our fellow citizens that there are Conservative MPs who want to heal, not perpetuate, divisions.
We can bring the withdrawal phase to a close. And can then get on with thinking about how to, and who should, negotiate the future relationship.
The way to head these moves off – and this development is anticipated in the Cooper Bill which I am supporting – is to put an agreement in place.
Supporting the deal would also prevent several other things – such as the possibibility of a truly socialist government taking over.
The Malthouse Amendment experience of different people coming together shows that unity is possible.