Today’s Brexit debate was likened by one Conservative politician to a ‘group therapy session’. If that therapy session involved members of the same family turning on one another in a bitter feud then it was a rather apt description, as MPs used the session to air their personal grievances over the government’s handling of the referendum result.
With Theresa May forced to make a last minute amendment to Labour’s motion on Tuesday night in order to prevent a Tory rebellion, it came as little surprise that the session was dominated by Conservative in-fighting. As Anna Soubry — a core member of the post-Brexit awkward squad — argued that Parliament must vote on Article 50 and that the government should abandon its immigration target, her colleague Kwasi Kwarteng could be heard shouting ‘rubbish’ in the background.
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