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Churchill's grandson to be expelled from Conservative Party after defying Johnson [View all]
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS SEPTEMBER 3, 2019 / 1:53 PM / UPDATED 16 MINUTES AGO
Churchill's grandson to be expelled from Conservative Party after defying Johnson
Michael Holden, Andrew MacAskill
4 MIN READ
LONDON (Reuters) - Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Britain’s World War Two leader Winston Churchill, will be expelled from the Conservative Party after voting against Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Brexit.
The move against the Conservative Party grandee marks one of the most bizarre turns in the three-year Brexit crisis that has gripped a country once touted as a confident pillar of Western economic and political stability.
Soames was one of 21 Conservative lawmakers who rebelled, including Ken Clarke, 79, the longest continuously sitting British lawmaker in the House of Commons, and former finance minister Philip Hammond. All are to be expelled.
When Soames was asked if this was the end of the Conservative Party his grandfather would have known, he said: “No. But it’s a bad night.
“It is a pity - a great pity - that this has in my view all been planned: this is exactly what they wanted and they will try to have a general election which is what they wanted.”
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Churchill's grandson to be expelled from Conservative Party after defying Johnson
Michael Holden, Andrew MacAskill
4 MIN READ
LONDON (Reuters) - Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Britain’s World War Two leader Winston Churchill, will be expelled from the Conservative Party after voting against Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Brexit.
The move against the Conservative Party grandee marks one of the most bizarre turns in the three-year Brexit crisis that has gripped a country once touted as a confident pillar of Western economic and political stability.
Soames was one of 21 Conservative lawmakers who rebelled, including Ken Clarke, 79, the longest continuously sitting British lawmaker in the House of Commons, and former finance minister Philip Hammond. All are to be expelled.
When Soames was asked if this was the end of the Conservative Party his grandfather would have known, he said: “No. But it’s a bad night.
“It is a pity - a great pity - that this has in my view all been planned: this is exactly what they wanted and they will try to have a general election which is what they wanted.”
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-soames/churchills-grandson-to-be-expelled-from-conservative-party-after-defying-johnson-idUSKCN1VO2BE
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