Page QQQ Daily Mail, Thursday, August 8, 2019No 10 chief’s chilling
warning to rebels
THE British food industry has
demanded ministers waive
aspects of competition law to
enable them to cope with the
risk of a No Deal Brexit.
The Food and Drink Federa-
tion wants to allow firms to
co-ordinate and direct sup-
plies with each other. Doing
so is illegal as the law stands.
Firms say, due to stockpiling
for Christmas, leaving the EU
in the autumn could mean
there will be less warehouse
space for extra food supplies.
The Road Haulage Associa-
tion is also warning that lorry
drivers in Dover face sitting in
two-day-long queues without
food or toilets if Britain leaves
the EU without a deal.BORIS Johnson’s top adviser
yesterday warned MPs trying to
prevent a No Deal Brexit: ‘You
don’t get to choose which votes
you respect.’
Former Vote Leave chief
Dominic Cummings said prepa-
rations for leaving the EU on
October 31 without a withdrawal
agreement were going ‘great’.
He was yesterday asked about
comments made by pro-Remain
Tory MP and former attorney
general Dominic Grieve.
Mr Grieve had attacked the
No 10 adviser’s ‘characteristic
arrogance and ignorance’ for
reportedly saying it was now
too late for MPs to stop No Deal
with fewer than 90 days until the
October 31 deadline.
Mr Cummings told Sky News: ‘Idon’t think I am arrogant. I
don’t know very much about
very much. Mr Grieve will see
what he’s right about.’
He added: ‘The most simple
thing is, the Prime Minister
believes politicians don’t get to
choose which votes they respect- that is the critical issue.’
Meanwhile, it was claimed last
night that Britain could go to the
polls the day after a No Deal
Brexit. A general election could
be called on November 1, The
Spectator reported. Last night, a
senior Government source said:
‘It’s speculation. The only date
we are thinking of is October 31 –
the day we leave the EU.’
By Claire Ellicott
Political CorrespondentLabour would ‘take over’ if boris
Johnson refused to quit after
losing a confidence vote, John
McDonnell said yesterday.
The Shadow Chancellor said he would
send Jeremy Corbyn to tell the Queen
he was ready to be prime minister.
‘I don’t want to drag the Queen into this
but I would be sending Jeremy Corbyn in a
cab to buckingham Palace to say, “we’re
taking over”,’ he said.
The remarks, at the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe, came a day after he was accused of
mounting a sinister bid to ‘silence’ oppo-
nents when he appeared to suggest Labour
would put political opponents on trial.
His latest comments sparked further fury
last night, with David Starkey saying the
threat was tantamount to a ‘coup’.
‘I’m afraid Mr Corbyn would be arrested,’
the historian told The Daily Telegraph.
‘The disguise has come off John McDonnellconfidence vote. If no one else
gains the confidence of the Com-
mons during this time, there is a
general election.
but some believe Mr Johnson
has no legal obligation to quit, and
could stay to ensure any election
was held after brexit on october
31 – preventing attempts to scup-
per No Deal.
In an earlier interview, the
Shadow Chancellor said he
‘might want to invent’ a law tolock up Conservative MPs he has
branded ‘social criminals’ for cut-
ting benefits.
a source close to Mr McDonnell
pointed out he was speaking ‘at
Edinburgh festival where no
speech should be without a joke’.
but Treasury minister Simon
Clarke said: ‘These are not the
comments of a man fit to be Chan-
cellor – or to hold any office – in a
Western democracy. a blatantaffront to the rule of law.’ Ian aus-
tin, an MP who left Labour this
year, said: ‘Can you imagine any
senior Labour figure of the past
threatening to lock up Tory MPs
for voting for laws they didn’t like?
What would people like McDon-
nell call right-wing politicians
who send opponents to prison?
These people are extremists.’
Mr McDonnell was being quizzed
by broadcaster Iain Dale overcomments he made in September
2011 at a ‘unite the resistance’
conference in which he called Tory
MPs ‘social criminals’.
The MP said he wanted to be ‘in
a situation where no Tory MP can
show their face in public without
being challenged by direct action’,
adding: ‘They are social criminals
and I warn you, we will try them.’
asked whether he could really ‘try’
politicians in a court of law, MrMcDonnell said: ‘I wouldn’t mind
it actually.’ He added that he
‘might want to invent’ a law to
allow such prosecutions.
÷ Shadow Treasury minister Clive
Lewis yesterday called for a gen-
eral strike over climate change –
despite britain having reduced
emissions faster than any other
G20 country. The proposed date is
September 20, weeks after school
summer holidays end.By Jack Doyle, Michael Blackley
and Daniel MartinCall for law change to
avoid food shortages
Labour war over 2nd Scots independence poll
JErEMy Corbyn is willing to destroy the
union to overturn brexit, Michael Gove
said last night.
He spoke after John McDonnell refused to
back down over his support for a second
referendum on Scottish independence.
The Shadow Chancellor said Labour
would not block a second vote if the Scot-
tish parliament voted for one, which is
against Labour policy.
He was slapped down by Scottish Labour
leader richard Leonard, while the Toriesyesterday shared a picture online depicting
Jeremy Corbyn in the pocket of SNP leader
Nicola Sturgeon.
Last night Mr Gove, the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, said: ‘If they are given
the chance, Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola
Sturgeon will do a backroom deal to ignore
not one, but two referendum results.
‘Today has made clear that those whowant to stop us leaving the Eu on october
31 are even willing to destroy the union in
their attempt to overturn the referendum.’
Speaking at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
on Tuesday, Mr McDonnell said: ‘The Scot-
tish parliament will come to a considered
view and they will submit that to the Gov-
ernment and the English Parliament itself.
‘If the Scottish people decide they want a
referendum, that’s for them. We would not
block something like that.’
The remarks sparked fury, with a dozenScottish Labour candidates signing an open
letter opposing ‘indyref2’. after meeting Mr
McDonnell, Mr Leonard said: ‘I made clear
to him that a second independence referen-
dum is unwanted and unnecessary.’
but yesterday Mr McDonnell refused to
change his position and claimed Mr Corbyn
agreed. In a second Fringe appearance, he
said allowing a second vote was ‘a view that
Jeremy has expressed in the past’.
Comment – Page 16
Stephen Glover – Page 19By Daniel Martin Policy Editor‘They will arrive
toting their guns’
- he’s a revolutionary communist.’ Former
Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said the
plot smacked of the Labour frontbench’s
attitude to the royal Family.
He said: ‘They don’t believe in her or the
constitution. They will effectively
arrive toting their guns. It’s basi-
cally a coup.’
Earlier this week, rebel Tory MPs
said they would urge the Queen to
sack Mr Johnson if he defied calls to make
way after the loss of any confidence vote.
Former attorney general Dominic Grieve,
who is leading efforts to prevent No Deal,
described the idea of Mr Johnson clinging
on as ‘breathtaking, stupid and infantile’.
under the Fixed-Term Parliaments act,
there is a 14-day period after the loss of a
Revolution: John
McDonnell at
the Edinburgh
Fringe yesterday‘Nouvelle cuisine, darling?
Or have we started No Deal
Brexit food rationing?’McDonnell: We’ll tell the
Queen we’re taking over
He says he’ll put
Corbyn in a cab
to palace if Boris
loses power
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