Downing Street launches investigation into remain collusion with foreign powers

The Mail On Sunday has been told by officials that they have received intelligence that a group of MPs including former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Sir Oliver Letwin, one of 21 Tories to lose the whip, received help in drafting the bill from members of the French Government and European Union officials. It has been reported MPs could attempt to bypass Boris Johnson and allow Speaker John Bercow to ask the EU for a further delay. These rebels have even discussed using legislation that could allow Mr Bercow to appoint a new British commissioner to the EU, with Amber Rudd one of the names mentioned.

In his story, the Mail on Sunday’s Glen Owen writes:

Downing Street has launched a major investigation into alleged links between foreign governments and the MPs behind the ‘Surrender Act’ which could force Boris Johnson to delay Brexit, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Sources said No 10 took the unprecedented action after officials received intelligence that the MPs, including former cabinet minister Oliver Letwin, had received help drafting the Bill from members of the French government and the European Union …

Last night, a senior No 10 source said: ‘The government is working on extensive investigations into Dominic Grieve, Oliver Letwin and Hilary Benn [who tabled the Bill] and their involvement with foreign powers and the funding of their activities. Governments have proper rules for drafting legislation, but nobody knows what organisations are pulling these strings.

‘We will demand the disclosure of all details of their personal communications with other states. The drafting of primary legislation in collusion with foreign powers must be fully investigated.’

Boris Johnson has also doubled down saying that his language is in fact quite moderate towards these MPs saying:

I won’t be bullied off use of that term. It seems to me a perfectly humdrum political metaphor.

Actually, when you read the the text of the Benn Act, the ‘abject capitulation act’ might be just as good a term for it, because it would attempt to force the prime minister of the UK to write a letter requesting to stay in the EU, and it would … allow the EU to decide how long we would stay on in the EU.

If that isn’t an attempt of the wholesale destruction of a country’s negotiating position, I don’t know what is.

So I think my language was really quite moderate.

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