Boris Johnson under fire from Scottish Conservatives

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Ruth Davidson backed the statistics watchdog that rebuked Boris Johnson for repeating claims that Brexit could allow an extra £350 million a week to be spent on public services
ROBERT PERRY FOR THE TIMES
Boris Johnson under fire from Ruth Davidson on eve of Tory conference
Scottish Conservative leader attacks 'overoptimistic' Brexiteers
by Francis Elliott, Political Editor | Sam Coates | Hamish Macdonnell September 30 2017, 12:00pm, The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/boris-johnson-under-fire-from-ruth-davidson-on-eve-of-tory-conference-tdbtgk97c

  "Ruth Davidson has called for "serious people" to take charge of Brexit
   in a renewal of her attacks on Boris Johnson on the eve of the
   Conservative Party conference.
   
   Ms Davidson, tipped as a future leader of the party, says in an
   interview with The Times today that "overoptimism" about the future of
   Britain outside the EU "sells people short".
   
   Her intervention means that the Tory conference in Manchester will
   begin tomorrow with two of the party's most popular and charismatic
   figures at odds.
   
   
   Theresa May waits at the EU Digital Summit in Tallinn. Ms Davidson backed the prime minister to lead the Tories into the next general election
   VIRGINIA MAYO/AP
   
   Mr Johnson issued a direct challenge to Theresa May last night by
   making four Brexit demands and telling her to increase pay faster. In
   his second challenge in as many weeks, the foreign secretary told The
   Sun that she must lift the minimum wage faster and pay public sector
   workers more, demands that will dismay Philip Hammond, the chancellor.
   Mr Johnson said that the transition period must last "not a second
   more" than two years.
   
   He insisted that Britain should refuse to accept any new EU rules or
   European Court of Justice rulings during the transition period — a
   position that could be legally impossible to implement — and rule out
   any further payments to Brussels for single-market access when the
   transition ends. He also said that the final post-transition deal must
   not lead to Britain copying Brussels rules to ensure easy access to the
   single market. Mr Johnson's interventions stray into areas that have
   not yet been decided by cabinet. It is not thought that Mrs May will
   initially challenge any of the foreign secretary's positions, nor is
   Downing Street preparing to dismiss him.
   
   In her interview Ms Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives,
   criticised the foreign secretary for his unauthorised 4,200-word
   article calling for a "glorious Brexit" on the day of the Parsons Green
   terrorist attack. She backed the statistics watchdog that rebuked him
   for repeating claims that Brexit could allow an extra £350 million a
   week to be spent on public services.
   
   
   Happier times: Boris Johnson and Ruth Davidson embrace after a Brexit debate last year
   STEFAN ROUSSEAU/PA
   
   Mr Johnson is the activists' favourite to succeed Theresa May. Ms
   Davidson, in second place, backed Mrs May to fight the next election
   and defended the prime minister's decision to call a snap poll in June,
   saying that it stopped an SNP surge towards a second independence
   referendum. "Theresa May might have lost her majority but by God she
   saved the Union," she said.
   
   The conference is a big test for Mrs May after her election humiliation
   but it can be revealed that senior figures believe the preparation has
   been disorganised. They have also identified potential pitfalls for the
   prime minister.
   
   She will apologise for the snap election behind closed doors in a move
   that could weaken her grip on power. There are fears among supporters
   that her policy proposals will be disappointing and she will talk of a
   "balanced economy", which supporters fear could cast the party as
   "Labour-lite". Downing Street is yet to see Mr Johnson's speech and is
   nervous that he could use it to push his version of Brexit.
   
   Ms Davidson used her interview to take aim at those peddling what she
   thinks is an unrealistic prospectus. "I think overoptimism and not
   recognising that there are practical realities that have to be faced,
   that have to be worked through and that complexity is not something you
   just skip over, that you actually have to work through, I think sells
   people short," she said. Asked about Mr Johnson's upbeat message she
   said: "This . . . needs serious people to do a lot of legwork and
   scanning the detail to make sure we do get to a place where it will all
   be OK."
   
   Although 19 per cent of Tory activists want her to take over from Mrs
   May, Ms Davidson ruled out leaving the Scottish parliament before the
   next Holyrood elections in May 2021. She warned her party that voters
   were tiring of the "internal Tory psychodrama" but admitted that she
   took part in conversations about "who could win in future elections" in
   the immediate aftermath of the surprise poll result, in which the
   Conservatives lost 13 seats.
   
   Ms Davidson called for the cabinet to fall into line behind Mrs May's
   Florence speech but tested the Tories' fragile truce on Brexit by
   suggesting that Britain would "look very much like it looks now" after
   the transition and that it could remain in the single market.
   
   Jeremy Corbyn said this morning that the foreign secretary's stance
   threatened a trade war with the EU.
   
   He said: "Boris this morning seems to be saying two years maximum on
   the transition period and then no shadowing of EU rules. Well, that
   sounds to me like a threat to have a trade policy that undermines
   Europe. Therein lies the basis of a trade war of the future, therein
   lies a threat to thousands and thousands of jobs in Britain.
   
   He added: "You have got to have a serious, adult, grown-up relationship
   with Europe."

From underneath the strangest places, even from underneath Rob Roy's
Putting Stone strange bed fellers, both in MSM and Alternative media appear
and claim that Boris Johnson should not become the new Prime Minister.
Very strange as Boris Johnson is the only politician who has supported BREXIT from day zero.