SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019

Swinson’s message to the Tory

‘Gaukeward’ squad: Stand up

and block no deal

The Lib Dem leader has been in talks with potential Conservative rebels (Getty)

ANDREW WOODCOCK

POLITICAL EDITOR

Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has urged the so-called “Gaukeward squad” of pro-European Tory
former ministers to stand up and be counted on Brexit – because she fears not enough of them will try to
stop Boris Johnson crashing the UK out of the EU without a deal.

Without naming names, she made clear that the group included not only those walked out of the cabinet

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