Two cabinet ministers 'interested in new anti-Brexit party idea' (allegedly) [View all]
It's silly season, and top of the silly season stories in UK politics right now is James Chapman. A Tory Westminster insider who has split from his former boss David Davis in spectacular fashion. Chapman is currently making all sorts of wild claims on Twitter. https://twitter.com/jameschappers?lang=en Some of his claims are plausible but cannot be substantiated, other claims he makes are downright ludicrous.
The idea of a new centrist party is attractive to some people, but faces a number of obstacles, most notably the fact that we already have a pro EU "centre" party in the Liberal Democrats, and I don't think an unelected bag carrier with a huge ego and a penchant for tweeting incessantly is the man to pull off any kind of Macron-esque feat. Especially when he comes across as being as "post-truth" as any other political reprobate out there.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/aug/11/two-cabinet-ministers-interested-in-new-anti-brexit-party-james-chapman
He said: “Two people in the cabinet, a number of people who have been in Conservative cabinets before now – better cabinets, I might say, than the current one – and a number of shadow cabinets ministers have also been in touch. They are not saying they are going to quit their parties, but they are saying they understand that there is an enormous gap in the centre now of British politics.”
Chapman, a former political editor of the Daily Mail who works for the PR firm Bell Pottinger, said the Conservative brand had been so tarnished by Brexit that it would never win a working majority again.
He said Labour and the Conservatives had been taken over by extremists. Appearing alongside the Tory MP and leading Brexiter Jacob Rees-Mogg, Chapman said: “The two main parties have been captured by their fringes, and Jacob is a member of that fringe and he has captured my party and I don’t any longer want to be a part of it.
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