Eustace: 'Parliament is on a very dangerous course now'published at 10:05 Greenwich Mean Time 13 March 2019
BBC Radio 5 Live
Conservative MP George Eustace campaigned to Leave, and voted for Theresa May’s deal last night. He has been talking to Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5 live about the options ahead.
“I do fear that Parliament is on a very dangerous course now… We don’t know what will happen next, the EU will name the price of any extension. They may say it has to be at least two years, they may say 'give us 50 billion euros' as the price for that.
“The idea of an extension makes some sense if we have a plan… if we can finally put this debate to bed and end the groundhog day of Brexit debate. If we had a plan for three months to do that, I think that would be acceptable. But to have a three month extension with no plan at all I think is pointless, there’d be no purpose to that.
"And then to have a long extension I think will lead to the humiliation of our country. We’ll just not be honouring the referendum result."