Boris Johnson’s attempts to lock in support of Eurosceptics suffers blow after Steve Baker angrily turns down ministerial role
Eurosceptics accuse PM of ‘binning off’ ERG. They blame Cummings, who has called them a ‘metastasising tumour’
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‘Steve has been badly treated, this smacks of poor man-management
‘Without him we would already have signed withdrawal agreement, we would be trapped in backstop forever and May would still be PM. Some people clearly have short memories’
‘This is typical of the way the ERG has been treated. Anybody who is in the ERG has been binned off. Steve has been treated terribly’