Brexit Delay would be ‘Political Calamity’: Brexiteer MPs

A number of Brexiteer MPs have said any delay to Brexit would append a precedent amount of harm to public trust in Britain’s politics.  

“Extended uncertainty” would be a “political calamity”, said Tory MP Steve Backer and the Democratic Unionist Party’s Nigel Dodds.

Baker, who is deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit Tory European Research Group (ERG), and Dodds wrote that, for some, any delay would mean “democracy would be effectively dead”.

They said that such an outcome would be “a costly delay for businesses which have prepared to exit on 29 March”, BBC News quoted.

It comes after an exclusive survey which found 53 percent of voters would support postponing Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, opening the door to a second referendum.

While 33 percent would advocate membership despite a possible economic catastrophe, and the remaining 14 percent did not comment.

United Kingdom’s MP Theresa May, on March 12, will again ask MPs to back her Brexit deal. MPs may get a chance to vote to delay Brexit if they reject the deal.

The UK is due to leave the European Union on March 29.

The idea on Britain’s withdrawal from the EU took place in June 2016, which the government has decided to withdraw membership form the European Union.