Leadsom REVEALS 'workable' three-step plan of delivering Brexit – 'We've let Brits down' CONSERVATIVE party leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom has outlined her “workable” three-step plan of delivering Britain’s exit from the European Union.
Conservative Party leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom has detailed her three-step plan of delivering Britain’s departure from the European Union. Former Leader of the House, Ms Leadsom, resigned from Theresa May’s cabinet just days before she announced she would be stepping down as Prime Minister towards the end of last month. Running to become the next Tory leader and Prime Minister, Ms Leadsom outlined her “workable” three-step plan of delivering Brexit.
She told Good Morning Britain: “Whoever is going to be the next leader of the Conservative Party will need to have a plan on what happens next and I do have a plan.
“It is a three-step plan to a managed exit from the EU at the end of October.
“We have to leave then because our politics at the moment is severely under question, people think that we have totally let them down. We were supposed to leave the EU and we haven’t.
“My three-step plan involves legislating for sensible measures that we can all agree about between the EU and the UK. It involves ramping up preparations for no deal, for a temporary free trade agreement. And for measures at the Northern Ireland border.
“Really importantly it involves taking a ministerial delegation to the EU Council heads, who are the heads of state, to talk through 'these are the measures we can put in place by the end of October to have a smooth transition out of the EU'. It is all doable.”
Ms Leadsom was asked if “standing by” Mrs May’s withdrawal agreement for so long has damaged her chances of becoming Prime Minister.
The Conservative politician replied: “Really importantly, that deal is legally Brexit, that is why I voted for it three times, and I would vote for it again. We have got to get out of the EU.
“But, I equally recognise that deal is now dead, it is not going to get resurrected, so we need to think of another plan.”
She added: “I have a very workable plan.”
Mr Morgan claimed for the UK to leave the European Union with a deal, it relies on the EU “caving” which “they are not going to do”.
The Conservative Party leadership candidate said: “No, not caving. All politicians face the ballot box.
“Once it is absolutely established that we are leaving at the end of October, I think that has been the fundamental problem so far, is that nobody believed we would actually leave without a deal.
“Once you set out we will not have an extension, and it is very clear the EU does not wish to give us another extension anyway, then people, instead of thinking ‘what’s the best we can get’, they start turning their attention to ‘what sort of things can we put in place' that would be relatively easy to bank and relatively uncontroversial with MPs here, with politicians in Europe.
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“That is when people start to look positively at the measures we can put in place.”
Ms Leadsom joins 11 Conservative MPs still running to take over as Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister.
Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson is one of the frontrunners in the Conservative leadership contest, with 40 public endorsements, ahead of both Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Earlier this week both Housing Minister Kit Malthouse and Brexit Minister James Cleverly pulled out of the crowded race to succeed Mrs May.
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