Anna Soubry launches personal attack on Theresa May as she accuses her of ‘having a problem with immigration’
Anna Soubry pictured today hosting on LBC has launched a furious personal attack on Theresa May
Anna Soubry has launched a furious personal attack on Theresa May, accusing her of being ‘delusional’ and of ‘having a problem with immigration‘.
The Broxtowe MP cut loose just hours after resigning her membership of the Conservative Party to join the new Independent Group of defectors.
But she faced a personal backlash today as she hosted a live radio phone-in on LBC.
Two people claiming to be constituents slammed her decision to quit the Tories over Brexit, branding her ‘two-faced’ and ‘rude’.
Ms Soubry was among three ex-Tory MPs to quit the party yesterday to put boosters under the new Independent Group as it attempts to tear up the Westminster party system.
Mrs May defended her ‘moderate, open-hearted’ party tonight in a robust letter to the three MPs who defected to the Independent Group.
She thanked them for their service but said they were wrong to suggest the party had been lost to a right-wing fringe obsessed with the European Union and Brexit.
The PM met pro-EU Tories who have threatened to defect today in a bid to stem the tide to the new Independent Group.
She told Newsnight: ‘The only reason why she will not agree to the single market is because of free movement of people.
‘And I think what’s really worried me about Theresa, and she has history in the Home Office that supports this, because I’m an old barrister, I look at the evidence, and I think she’s got a problem with immigration.
‘I really, honestly do.’
In a separate interview with The Times Red Box podcast, Ms Soubry attacked again: ‘I think she’s in a bad place. That’s the truth of it.
‘I don’t mean this in a cruel way but I think she is absolutely delusional about the situation that she and the country is in.’
