As the Treasury Committee looks into the economic costs of the UK’s EU membership, several leading Brexit figures have been summoned to speak before the panel. However, Vote Leave’s Matthew Elliott’s continual absence has cast a shadow on proceedings.
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The Vote Leave chief executive has turned down an invitation to speak before the committee not one, not two, but three times. His absence has repeatedly been mentioned during the EU sessions, with Andrew Tyrie, the committee chair at one point repeating Arron Banks’s description of Elliott as ‘Lord Elliott of loserville’.
As a result of these difficulties Tyrie had to summon Elliott to attend yesterday’s session under parliamentary order. Unsurprisingly he received a hostile reception on arrival as Tyrie tried to explain to the Brexit champion the problems he had caused:
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