Winston Churchill’s grandson Nicholas Soames to be booted from Conservative Party for defying UK PM Boris Johnson over Brexit
- Nicholas Soames was one of 21 Conservative lawmakers who rebelled against UK PM to vote against the government in Tuesday’s Brexit vote
- Others include former finance minister Philip Hammond and the longest-serving MP, Kenneth Clarke
On September 3, 1939, England declared war against Germany, and Winston Churchill was invited back from political exile to serve as a first lord of the admiralty and later prime minister in the war against Adolf Hitler.
Nicholas Soames, a member of parliament representing Mid Sussex, was among the group of 21 Conservative politicians who defied Johnson’s wishes by voting for a motion that paves the way for Brexit to be delayed till 2020.
Hours after the vote on Tuesday, a representative of 10 Downing Street said conservative MPs who did not support the prime minister “will have the Tory whip removed”, The Financial Times reported, meaning that they would not be allowed to stand as Conservative representatives in parliament.
Soames, 71, confirmed this in an interview with the BBC’s Newsnight.
