Re: Brexit - Can you ever please both sides?
But Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom hit back, telling the Telegraph that colleagues who want to stop no deal wrongly 'think they know better' than voters, but will 'fail our country' and weaken the UK's negotiating hand.
Ms Leadsom said: 'Parliamentarians are the servants of the people – and the people gave us a very direct answer to a direct question. We must leave the EU.
'No deal is not the desired outcome, but it would be incompetent for any responsible government to rule it out, and there are very good reasons for that. If we rule out no deal, we can forget about the EU taking us seriously. We weaken our negotiating hand.'
Ms Leadsom said people campaigning to block no deal were 'conveniently ignoring' the fact that Parliament had passed legislation which meant the UK will leave the EU on March 29 whether there is a deal or not.
She said: 'It's the legal default position between the UK and the EU. If we fail to prepare, we prepare to fail our country.
'The will of the people is not something that should be redefined by parliamentarians who think they know better, and want to pursue their own agenda.
'Anyone who wants to cheer the optimistic future we have ahead of us is worthy of our support, not our derision.'
PM leaves EU in 'disbelief' as she fails to make new Brexit demands
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