UKIP's Margot Parker hits out at Soubry

UKIP's Margot Parker hits out at Soubry

Remain-backing Tory backbencher Anna Soubry has been challenged on the truth behind her predictions of a no deal Brexit disaster. During an appearance on Sunday Politic’s East Midlands, Ukip MEP Margot Parker claimed that people with business experience knew that predictions of a no deal devastation had been exaggerated.

She questioned whether Ms Soubry had the business experience to make claims of an economic wipe-out, after the Tory Remainer claimed Britain would continue to slide down economic charts.

Ms Parker dismissed scaremongering around a no deal outcome, telling the BBC: "I don’t consider WTO terms a ‘crash out’. We can deal with this. Any effects will be short-term."

She also criticised Airbus CEO Tom Enders after the businessman urged lawmakers to avoid a no deal Brexit.

The British MEP said: “At the end of the day, Airbus is a political situation. The EU has poured €654,000 in the past five years.

"The EU has put in a huge sum of money into the business, money that has come from the EU taxpayers. They won’t collapse in five minutes."

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