Davis' comments come on the heels of condemnatory statements by other senior Brexiteers, including former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson who recently publicly scolded Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit negotiations as “absolute humiliation.”
The former Brexit secretary, David Davis, has reportedly declared that эterror will win' in the campaign to prevent a no-deal Brexit from happening, according to the UK's Sky News.
Speaking at an event at the Institute of Economic Affairs, attended by a number of high profile British members of parliament (MPs), Mr Davis was asked on stage for his prediction on the trajectory of the Brexit process, to which he allegedly replied that he thinks London will buckle under the “irrational fear” of a “no deal” Brexit.
Sky News reported that Davis sullenly said: “The fear of no deal, I think — we haven't had a chance to talk about it much — but I think that's an irrational fear of no deal or [a] WTO [World Trade Organization] deal.”
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“Terror will win. That will win and there will be a deal,” he allegedly added.
Steve Baker, a former Brexit minister who was also in attendance at the conference could reportedly be heard whispering to Davis, “don't say that.”
Yet, Mr Davis — who resigned from Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet in July 2018 in protest of the so-called…