PM Urged To Drop Chequers In Order To Win 'Brexit Prize' theguardian.com

The author of a new plan for Brexit backed by senior pro-leave Conservatives has urged the government to abandon the Chequers proposal, saying it would leave a post-departure UK unable to benefit economically from its new place in the world.

Shanker Singham from the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) thinktank, who was to launch the plan later on Monday, said Theresa May’s Chequers proposal had approached Brexit “from the wrong end of the telescope” by failing to examine its global impact.

May had talked of a “Brexit prize” in her Lancaster House speech, Singham told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, but the extent of continued alignment with the EU needed in Chequers lost this.