{"id":121723,"date":"2023-11-30T17:09:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=121723"},"modified":"2023-11-30T17:09:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:09:45","slug":"lee-anderson-tells-ursula-von-der-leyen-to-shut-up-in-heated-brexit-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/politics\/lee-anderson-tells-ursula-von-der-leyen-to-shut-up-in-heated-brexit-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Anderson tells Ursula von der Leyen to \u2018shut up\u2019 in heated Brexit row"},"content":{"rendered":"

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She said \u201cthe direction of travel\u201d was clear and Britain could be on a path to “fix” the mistake of Brexit.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, thank God, with the Windsor agreement, we had a new beginning for old friends. Very important,\u201d Mrs von der Leyen said at the Politico event.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I must say, I keep telling my children, you have to fix it. We goofed it up. You have to fix it. So I think here, too, the direction of travel, my personal opinion is clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Anderson, the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, hit back and told GB News: \u201cSo the generation that fixed the problems in Europe was my grandad\u2019s generation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe put a British Army uniform on\u2026 he went to fight the Nazis, he went all across North Africa, through Sicily, through Italy, seen some horrible things. That was the generation that fixed the problems in Europe. She needs to shut up.\u201d<\/p>\n

And when asked whether he believed the UK would rejoin the EU in his lifetime, he said he \u201choped not\u201d, saying that if we did he would be \u201cmoving to Orkney isles\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the Prime Minister\u2019s spokesman said Mr Sunak did not agree with Mrs von der Leyen that future generations would have to fix Brexit.<\/p>\n

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