For now, these are small furious noises from the conservative benches. It remains to be seen whether the government believes the withdrawal agreement should be rejected and what the EU would do in response. But it is worth remembering that at least some of those who support the hardest Brexit have the least integrity. Needless to say, given the position he was running for election, this is pure quackery. It should be noted that the Brexit Party, which ran in the last election against the withdrawal agreement, won two percent of the vote. So there is no slightest argument in favour of a democratic mandate to denounce the Withdrawal Agreement here. The European Commission has rejected a request by senior Conservative officials to rewrite the Brexit withdrawal agreement to reduce the amount of cash Britain has to pay to the EU. It is important that, in a recent poll conducted by Savanta ComRes among people in “Red Wall” seats, who became conservative in the 2019 elections, a 49% lead meant that leaving the EU in 2020, and no longer, will mean that Britain had the national independence it had before joining the common market in 1973, Reconquered earlier. Only 26% opposed it. This level of agreement rises to two-thirds among “Red Wall” residents who voted for Labour in the 2017 general election and then switched to Conservatives in the 2019 election – and nearly three-quarters of those who voted Conservative in both elections.

The MP voted in favour of the deal and also tried to prevent the House of Commons from having more time to discuss the deal, just before Boris Johnson proclaimed an election to impose it. Indeed, Duncan Smith confirmed it a posteriori in an article falsely stating that the withdrawal agreement is a “work in progress” and that the United Kingdom can still “reject it”. It also appears to be trying to reject the provisions of the citizens` rights agreement – which are already covered by what the Vote Leave campaign promised – and wrongly claims that the EU refuses to negotiate services (the EU`s proposed trade deal contains 34 pages on this subject). . . .