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[...]“But what we do agree on is that Brexit is the biggest challenge we face as a country.” The court case will be heard in Walsall on 4 June.
The trio repeated their claim that Britain was being “held to ransom” by vocal Brexiters, and indicated they would be campaigning heavily for all parliamentarians to vote for amendments to the EU withdrawal bill when it returns to the Commons.
They launched their campaign on Monday at the Tilda rice mill in Essex, one of the biggest suppliers of the grain in Britain. It has said it may have to scale back its business, which employs 250 people, if the UK crashed out of the single market and the customs union.
Miliband, the former Labour foreign secretary and now head of the International Rescue Committee in New York, denied he aimed to return to British politics, while Clegg, the former Lib Dem deputy prime minister, denied the campaign was the genesis of a new centrist party.
Morgan is one of a number of Conservatives who have backed a plan to force a vote in the Commons aimed at forcing Theresa May to soften her red lines. She said Brexiters seemed content for people to be guinea pigs in their political experiment and wanted to force their will on both the Conservative party and the rest of parliament.
“There are no precedents [for the Brexiters’ vision] so the UK has been asked to experiment on other people’s whims with a new trade policy when they have no idea what the cost will be for business and people in this country,” she said. [...]
Nicky Morgan, David Miliband and Nick Clegg letter on The Daily Mail