UK's Boris Johnson: May's Brexit plan makes Britain the EU's "captive" - UK Telegraph

As reported by the UK's Telegraph media outlet, the UK's ex-Brexit minister, Boris Johnson, is accusing the PM's current Brexit plans as a recipe for a captive UK, and Johnson continues to call for a Cabinet mutiny against Prime Minister Theresa May.

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"Writing in The Telegraph, the former foreign secretary says the Prime Minister is "on the verge of total surrender" to Brussels and says her plans are a "recipe for continued strife". Urging people to "savour the full horror of this capitulation", he says Mrs May's plans for a customs union backstop are "shameful" and cannot be "conceivably" supported by any of her Cabinet.

Over the weekend the EU rejected the Prime Minister's plan for an "independent mechanism" that would enable Britain to break off temporary customs arrangements with Brussels after Brexit.

The deadlock will increase pressure on the Prime Minister at Cabinet tomorrow, where a final decision on Mrs May's Brexit plans is now likely to be delayed while negotiations with the EU continue.

It leaves the Prime Minister struggling to secure a November summit with European leaders to sign off her Brexit plans, increasing the risk that Britain will leave without a deal. 

Mr Johnson's intervention comes after the resignation last week of his brother, Jo, who said the Prime Minister's handling of Brexit represented a "failure of British statecraft on a scale unseen since the Suez crisis".

The former foreign secretary says that the backstop, which will keep Britain in a customs union with the Brussels if no solution to the Irish border issue can be found, is worse than being in the EU."