Richard Ashworth
- MEPs Richard Ashworth and Julie Girling were kicked out the Conservative Party for refusing to back Theresa May’s handling of Brexit.
- The pair told BI the prime minister is making a “horrendous” mess of negotiations.
- They call on their former colleagues to stand up against May’s hard Brexit plans.
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Last year British MEPs Julie Girling and Richard Ashworth were booted out of the Conservative Party after they voted against Brexit negotiations moving onto the next stage.
They were two of 557 MEPs who in October said that the UK and EU had not achieved “sufficient progress” for talks to progress.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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