Hard Brexit 'could cost Tories next election' - MPs
December 4, 2016 at 7:36 am
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38199310
Quote:Pursuing a "hard" Brexit could alienate core Conservative voters and cost the party the next general election, a group of Tory MPs has warned.
The group - which includes ex-attorney general Dominic Grieve - said "a moderate core" of Tory voters do not want the party to become "UKIP-lite".
PM Theresa May must ensure she is not "pushed" into a hard Brexit, they said.
It comes as the Lib Dems overturned a 23,015 Conservative majority to win Thursday's Richmond Park by-election.
Ex-Tory MP Zac Goldsmith stood as an independent after leaving the Conservative Party, but Lib Dem Sarah Olney - who fought the campaign on the issue of Brexit - won by more than 1,800 votes.