Britain’s Environment Secretary Michael Gove has urged Eurosceptic Conservative MPs to back a compromise Brexit plan as the best chance of a “proper” exit from the European Union.
Gove, one of the highest-profile Brexit campaigners in the cabinet, on Sunday endorsed Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to keep Britain in a free trade zone for goods with the EU.
The minister said he was a “realist” and dismissed claims it would leave the UK as a “vassal state.”
“I am a realist,” Gove told the BBC.
“One of the things about politics is that you mustn’t, you shouldn’t, make the perfect the enemy of the good. And one of the things about this compromise is that it unites the cabinet,” he added.
But he also told the EU to be more generous or Britain could walk away without a deal.
Prime Minister May is likely to tell MPs in the House of Commons on Monday that her plan will mean “a complete end to freedom of movement,” restore the…