Rees-Mogg OUTLINES 'biggest risk' if Tories don't deliver Brexit - 'We're in REAL trouble'
JACOB REES-MOGG has revealed the “biggest risk” to the Conservative Party if they do not deliver the result of the 2016 EU referendum.
Rees-Mogg: Tories will be in 'trouble' if we don't deliver Brexit
Leading Brexit supporter Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned if the Conservative Party do not deliver the result of the EU referendum then their voters will not go to the polls to back them in a future election. Speaking on his Friday evening LBC show, the Conservative MP for North East Somerset, claimed that Tory voters would not back the Labour Party, but just simply would not go to the ballot box. Speaking about Mr Corbyn not attending Brexit talks with the Prime Minister, Mr Rees-Mogg said: “I think whether Mr Corbyn is there or not doesn’t really matter.
“Polls show that 70 percent of Conservative voters back Brexit.
“If we don’t deliver Brexit for them, then we are in real trouble.
“It’s not that they will suddenly vote for Jeremy Corbyn, they won’t vote for a Marxist. But, they will simply stay at home.
He added: “Bear in mind that in 1997, Tony Blair got his landslide with fewer votes than John Major got in 1992.
“Tory voters just stayed at home, and that is the biggest risk.”
On Tuesday evening Theresa May suffered a historic defeat to her Brexit Withdrawal Agreement with a majority of 230 MPs voting against the deal.
On Wednesday evening the Prime Minister survived a no-confidence vote in her Government and reached out to opposition leaders to try to resolve the Brexit stalemate.
Jeremy Corbyn said he would not attend the Brexit talks until the Prime Minister took the threat of a no deal off the table.
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If we don’t deliver Brexit for them, then we are in real trouble
Mrs May has held conversations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has she desperately tries put together a Brexit plan acceptable to Parliament.
Her official spokeswoman confirmed the talks had taken place and said there would be more conversation with EU leaders over the weekend.
Mrs May will also speak with the President of the European Commission on Friday.
A spokesman for the European Commission said: "At her request, president Juncker will talk to Prime Minister May today, early afternoon."