Senior Tory Brexiteers demanded last night that Theresa May exploit Angela Merkel’s political weakness and suspend plans to offer billions of pounds more to the European Union.
The prime minister’s allies said that she had bound her cabinet to Britain’s negotiating stance, including the offer of more money at a meeting before the European Council next month.
The German chancellor’s admission yesterday that she might be forced back to the polls had tipped Brexit negotiations into chaos, said Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader and a prominent Brexiteer. He urged Mrs May to “sit tight”.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, Tory MP for North East Somerset, said that it would be “foolish” to improve the offer at a time when Mrs Merkel needed to reassure German voters