Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said that he is prepared to take UK "with great regret" out of the EU without a deal if he became the Prime Minister.
“As prime minister I would have a clear position. We should leave on 31 October. And if we cannot get a deal we should, with great regret, leave without one, having done everything we can to minimise disruption,” wrote Sajid Javid in his column in the Daily Mail.
Javid is one of the 12 candidates in the race to replace Theresa May, and his Brexit plan includes working with Ireland to amend the backstop and to leave on October 31. Meanwhile, he has also ruled out the possibility of a fresh referendum, emphasising that the voters have been asked their opinion more than enough times.
"Never in this country’s history have we asked people to go to the polls a second time without implementing their verdict from the first.
“Another vote before we leave would be disastrous for trust in politics, and cause the kind of chaos that risks handing Jeremy Corbyn and his hard-left supporters the keys to No 10,” he wrote.
Javid announced his candidacy following the party's disastrous Euro elections result, the worst in its history.
