London Mayor Sadiq Khan says It is REMAINERS like him who are trying to make a success of Brexit – not Leavers such as Jacob Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson

• London Mayor Sadiq Khan says Remainers are trying to make Brexit a success 
• He said the politicians who voted for Brexit have ‘vacated the pitch now’
• His statements come a day after Liz Truss’s Conservative Party Conference

London Mayor Sadiq Khan says Remainers are the people trying to make Brexit a  success, not Jacob Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson.

Mr Khan said politicians who voted to remain in the EU are the ones now having to to make the best out of Brexit, instead of those who actually voted for it.

On LBC’s Speak To Sadiq on Thursday, he said: ‘Look to see who’s trying to make Brexit a success, it’s us Remainers by the way.

‘Not Jacob Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson or Michael Gove who vacated the pitch now – it’s those who said this would happen who are now trying our very best to make it work. 

Mr Khan was stunned that there were people ‘criticising the Government of Ireland… who have been proved right in relation to the sensitivity of the Good Friday Agreement, the importance of not having borders between North and South, the fragility of peace’.

‘It just beggars belief.’

Mr Khan (pictured) said politicians who voted to remain in the EU are the ones now having to to make the best out of Brexit, instead of those who actually voted for it

London Mayor Sadiq Khan says Remainers are the people trying to make Brexit a success, not Jacob Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson

Mr Khan, pictured, was stunned that there were people ‘criticising the Government of Ireland… who have been proved right in relation to the sensitivity of the Good Friday Agreement, the importance of not having borders between North and South, the fragility of peace’

His comments come after the conclusion of Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham on Wednesday, where Liz Truss condemned an ‘anti-growth coalition’ of ‘Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP’, ‘militant unions, Brexit deniers’ and Greenpeace protesters who disrupted the speech.

The Prime Minister has had a tough month in the job marred by a U-turn on tax policy and dissent within her Cabinet, but has promised to steer the country through the ‘tempest’ and ‘get Britain moving’ again.

Despite the decision to ditch plans to scrap the 45p top rate of tax, Ms Truss insisted ‘we must stay the course’ in pursuit of her three priorities: ‘Growth, growth and growth.’

She told the crowd: ‘This mission will be difficult but necessary. We have no alternative if we want to get our economy growing again.

‘I am ready to make hard choices. You can trust me to do what it takes.’

But Mr Khan argued ‘the easiest way, the quickest way to get growth is to join the single market. 

‘You’re still outside the EU but by joining the single market you increase growth almost overnight.

‘Let’s not pretend that the government’s concerned about growth – it’s an ideological game they’re playing.’

He said the mention of the ‘anti-growth coalition’ would create a ‘dividing line’ where ‘only our politics will lead to growth and if you don’t agree with our policies you’re anti-growth’.

‘They then say you’re talking down the country, they then say you’re talking down our businesses when what you’re doing is calling out some of the consequences of Brexit.’

The Mayor said a ‘hodgepodge of people’ were in this group: ‘XR, North Londoners, Labour, Lib Dems, SNP, Greens…’

‘Who’s not in it?’ James O’Brien asked.

‘Basically anybody who is not part of the 19% who currently support the Tory Party’, he said.

The Prime Minister has had a tough month in the job marred by a U-turn on tax policy and dissent within her Cabinet, but has promised to steer the country through the ‘tempest’ and ‘get Britain moving’ again 

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