EX-TORY Cabinet Ministers bitterly opposed to a no-deal Brexit plot their next move over a plate of pasta in a swanky Westminster restaurant.
Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC and former Cabinet Office Minister Sir Oliver Letwin were both booted out of the party last week in Boris Johnson ’s purge of rebels.
But the pair met for a slap-up £35 lunch at Colosseo, just a few minutes’ walk from Parliament on the first day of prorogation after the Commons was suspended for five weeks.
They were overheard discussing potential threats to “the Union” and the unprecedented prorogation as they each tucked into a lasagne.
They also shared a salad and washed it all down with a jug of tap water.
Sir Oliver picked up the bill.
It came as Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson demanded a second Brexit referendum before a general election.
Party chief Jeremy Corbyn wants a general election when a withdrawal delay has been secured from Brussels.
He would then use the ballot box run-in to fight for another EU vote.
But Mr Watson, Mr Corbyn’s number two, calls for a different sequence of polls in a speech to the Creative Industries Federation on Wednesday.
He will say at London’s Somerset House: “All the huge social issues in our country, from deprivation to rising crime to the environment, have been sacrificed on the altar of Brexit over the last three years.
“That’s why we need to solve Brexit first, once and for all, by a referendum and then have a general election so the country can move forward.”
MPs’ first priority when Parliament returns on October 14 should be stopping no-deal on October 31, Mr Watson will say.
