After six years, we still have a Remainer Cabinet – 60% voted Remain

Facts4EU.Org has analysed the EU Referendum voting record of the PM’s new Cabinet

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At least we have pro-Brexit Home and Foreign Secretaries

Last night the new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a list of 30 ministerial appointments ranging from his Secretaries of State to “ministers without portfolio”. 60% of them voted Remain in the EU Referendum.

The list of ministers who actually attend Cabinet as a right has always been somewhat opaque and has varied according to each Prime Minister’s wishes. However from the Government’s statement overnight it appears that 26 out of the 30 will attend.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

Rishi Sunak’s new Cabinet – Remain or Leave?

Ministers who voted Remain : 15 (60%)
Ministers who voted Leave : 10 (40%)
Undeclared : 1

[Source: See below.]

Is Rishi Sunak a Brexiteer?

The records show that the new Prime Minister voted Leave in the EU Referendum. However no-one we know in either of the major Leave campaigns ever saw anything of him in 2016.

Mr Sunak was of course only an MP in 2016. Nevertheless, other MPs campaigned vigorously in what was a fiercely-contested vote. We can only say that the new Prime Minister was practically invisible and never once popped up on our radar.

Who voted Remain and who voted Leave? (And who won’t say?)

1. The Remainers

Jeremy Hunt MP re-appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer
Ben Wallace MP re-appointed as Secretary of State for Defence
Dr Thérèse Coffey MP as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Gillian Keegan MP as Secretary of State for Education
Grant Shapps MP as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Mark Harper MP as Secretary of State for Transport
Mel Stride MP as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Michelle Donelan MP re-appointed as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Jeremy Quin MP as Paymaster General, and Minister for the Cabinet Office. He will attend Cabinet.
John Glen MP as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He will attend Cabinet.
Johnny Mercer MP as a Minister of State (Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) in the Cabinet Office. He will attend Cabinet.
Robert Jenrick MP as a Minister of State (Minister for Immigration) in the Home Office. He will attend Cabinet.
Andrew Mitchell MP as a Minister of State (Minister for Development) in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He will attend Cabinet.
Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP as a Minister of State (Minister without Portfolio) in the Cabinet Office. He will attend Cabinet.
Tom Tugendhat MBE MP re-appointed as a Minister of State (Minister for Security) in the Home Office. He attends Cabinet.

2. The Leavers

Rishi Sunak MP as Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
Dominic Raab MP as Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor, and Secretary of State for Justice
Suella Braverman KC MP as Secretary of State for the Home Department
James Cleverly MP re-appointed as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Steve Barclay MP as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Alister Jack MP re-appointed as Secretary of State for Scotland
Chris Heaton-Harris MP re-appointed as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
David TC Davies MP as Secretary of State for Wales
Kemi Badenoch MP re-appointed as Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade. She also becomes Minister for Women and Equalities
Michael Gove MP as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations

3. The Undeclared

Lord True, Leader of the House of Lords. He has never been an MP and we have been unable to find any information on how he voted in 2016. We do know that the House of Lords was – and still is – ‘Remainer City’ in Westminster, with the vast majority of peers voting Remain. They conspired with all the Ultra-Remainer MPs in the Commons and did everything they could to overturn the largest democratic decision in British history.

Observations

Who cares? We do

There will of course be those who say “Who cares?” They will argue that what matters now is whether those Cabinet members who voted Remain six years ago now accept the democratic decision of the British people.

Unfortunately we can’t agree. Some of Mr Sunak’s new Cabinet were Ultra-Remainers. Examples who spring instantly to mind include the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Andrew Mitchell, John Glen, Gavin Williamson, and Tom Tugendhat (whose French wife works for Macron’s government).

One area of considerable concern is the Exchequer. Not only was the Chancellor a strong Remainer, but Rishi Sunak has just replaced his excellent (pro-Brexit) deputy with Remainer John Glen. This puts the nation’s purse strings in the hands of two people whose natural inclination is pro-EU.

Brexit action is needed urgently

It goes even further than that. There is a desperate need to deregulate after the EU imposed so many inappropriate rules and regulations on the UK’s services economy in particular. Deregulation in the financial sector has become increasingly urgent. Does anyone think that two Remainers at the Treasury are going to move heaven and earth to get this done quickly? We would love to be proved wrong, but…

Then there are all the other areas of Brexit which have yet to be resolved, six years after we vote to leave the EU. Northern Ireland is a key one, but there are many others including control of immigration, fisheries, and others. It's high time we started seeing more of the changes necessary to deliver on the benefits of Brexit.

We very much hope to see urgent action from Mr Sunak's Remainer Cabinet.

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[ Sources: No.10 | Facts4EU's research of MPs' voting records over several years ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.

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Reader Comments 16

1. John Hardman , Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 10:02:

Say good bye to the next General Election.
Conservatives love the EU more then the majority who voted leave.
Reform Party is my next party.

2. Tim B , Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 10:50:

1. John Hardman. Yes but for me they have one last chance left. If before the next election they scrap the NI Protocol and rid NI of any EU interference; leave the ECHR and make a serious attempt at controlling illegal immigration and scrap their ridiculous Net Zero policy, I may be tempted back. Somehow I don’t think so!

3. Northern Realist , Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 12:06:

Tim,
I may be minded to agree with you, but!
These need to have actually HAPPENED at the time of the next election. I will never be swayed by the words of the Conservative party again.
I also think that it is ESSENTIAL that they significantly reduce the tax burden that we currently face. I would never expect a Tory government to have the highest taxes of the last 70 years!
I also think they need to have made significant changes to the acceptance of the mass of diversity and inclusion nonsense that we see in everyday life!!
I don't expect ANY of the above to have actually, really happened by the next GE, so I imagine I will be with John above and be voting for Reform!

4. Tim B , Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 12:40:

3. Northern Realist. I did say ‘ If before the next election’. Yes I agree with you I could have included the handling of the economy and a few issues the Conservatives have failed at. However if Remain take a significant percentage of the traditional Conservative vote, in our two party system, Labour will get in and their handling of these issues is likely to be far worse than anything the Conservatives do or don’t do.

5. LuxuryBalloon , Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 13:07:

Boris’ and Truss’ were Brexiteer Cabinets. The article headline should read: ‘After six years we again have a Remainer Cabinet’.

6. KB , Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 13:36:

The rejoiners constantly ask, "show me a list of Brexit Benefits".
This list is short, and is overwhelmed by the Brexit costs.
We now have a PM who is some kind of WEF/IMF appeaser, and will basically do what he is told by globalists. The globalists did not like us leaving the EU.
I think this article is on the right track, there will be no great Brexit benefits because they don't want there to be any.
One of the promises was that global corporations like Amazon would no longer be able to route profits through Ireland and other countries, thereby avoiding UK tax. I thought this was an attractive proposition. Of course I have not heard a thing about it since the referendum.

7. jon livesey , Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 17:04:

I am not sure how meaningful it is to label people based on the opinions they expressed in a referendum six years ago. For one thing, they all belonged to a Party that was officially opposed to Brexit and they were all six years more junior than they are today and had political careers to worry about. And, dare I suggest it, maybe the third acting under-secretary of state for school gym shoes didn't have a very informed opinion on Brexit anyway. For example, Liz Truss, the well-known economics expert.
But I think the real point is that no matter what they said six years ago, every single one of these people is far more powerful today than they were then. They are not just sitting by the Fax machine waiting to find out what Hiney Fnoop has decider UK policy should be. They are finally back to doing the jobs they were elected to do.

8. Peter Campbell , Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 17:59:

That's what it's all been about, clear out Boris & then try get us back in....... honestly if some folk love the EU so much go live there! Got to be a reason nearly 3 million EU citizens applied to stay here, so swap them for pro EU supporters

9. Buster , Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 18:43:

Lol. We are all Brexitists now. We are all stuck with your shit project which has caused so much harm to our country. And all because you wanted to get rid of brown people - who mostly don’t come from Europe. And now you even have one of them as your unelected PM. Lol.

10. John Junior , Thursday, October 27, 2022, 06:05:

Time for MAJOR changes people

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