UK heading for 'dilution of Brexit', says former minister

The UK is heading towards "a dilution of brexit", former cabinet minister theresa villiers has said.

The conservative mp, writing inside the sunday telegraph, said there was "a actual risk" the United Kingdom will sign up to an agreement with brussels which could "hold us inside the ecu in all however call".

Her comments come amid growing tory birthday party rifts over brexit.

Backbenchers criticised philip hammond this week for pronouncing changes to united kingdom-eu family members could be "very modest".

Ms villiers, who campaigned for a depart vote inside the ecu referendum, stated she had lengthy "made the case for compromise and moderation" inside the authorities's approach to negotiating brexit.

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However, she wrote, because the high minister "set out a formidable vision" a 12 months in the past, "the course of journey appears to have long past in most effective one unmarried course: in the direction of a dilution of brexit".

The former northern ireland secretary delivered that a deal which kept the United Kingdom in the ecu "in all however call" could "fail to admire the referendum result".

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The United Kingdom is due to leave the eu union in march 2019, and negotiations are taking region among the 2 aspects.

Ms villiers is the present day senior conservative eurosceptic to speak out over perceived backsliding through the authorities.

One of the key questions is how close the buying and selling dating with europe may be, once the United Kingdom has left.

In advance this week the chancellor said he was hoping the UK and eu economies might best move "very modestly" aside after brexit, as they were already "completely interconnected and aligned".

But mp jacob rees-mogg, one of the main eurosceptic voices on the conservative benches, said that "near alignment" with the ecu after brexit could be unacceptable.

He warned theresa may additionally that if she brought "brexit in call only", the tories might lose the following election.

Meanwhile, former tory celebration chairman furnish shapps has advised the prime minister to "call a date" whilst she can stand down, in step with the mail on sunday.

Mr shapps said he had no longer submitted a letter to the party's 1922 committee, calling for a leadership contest, but delivered "more and more my colleagues have".