The Express reports today “The BILL CASH has the fate of the Brexit deal in his hands as the deadline for the Government’s vote on the new deal draws closer – but who is Bill Cash?
Sir Bill Cash will be an instrumental figure as MPs prepare to return to the House of Commons on Wednesday to vote on the European Union/UK Brexit trade deal. The MP will today deliver the verdict from the ERG on the new Brexit trade deal. But who exactly is Sir William Cash?
Britain and the European Union agreed a trade deal on Christmas Eve after months of negotiating.
EU ambassadors have received a Christmas Day briefing on the post-Brexit trade deal reached with the UK.
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier updated them on the agreement, reached after months of fraught talks on fishing rights and business rules.
MPs will vote on the deal in Parliament on Wednesday, December 30, with the UK prepared to exit existing trading arrangements on December 31.
The 1,246-page post-Brexit trade deal has brought “a little stability” between the EU and the UK according to the EU’s chief negotiator.
However, there are still some elements which the bloc’s future relationship with Britain have yet to be determined he added.
The Brexit trade deal, due to come into force on January 1, was on Monday unanimously approved by EU ambassadors.
It will be voted on by the House of Commons and House of Lords on Wednesday, under the UK’s own ratification process.
Who is Bill Cash?
Sir William Cash, 80, is a British Conservative Party MP who has served since 1984.
He was first elected for Stafford and then for Stone in Staffordshire in 1997.
He is a prominent Eurosceptic in the House of Commons and is now the elected Chair of the House of Commons’ European Scrutiny Committee.
In 1993, Sir William founded and remains chairman of the eurosceptic European Foundation which was created during the Maastricht Rebellion.
During 1994 to 1995 Sir William was a member of the Tindemans group.
He was secretary of the European Reform Forum, and has been vice-president of the Conservative Small Business Bureau.
Sir William was appointed as Attorney General in 2003 and in 2003 was made the Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs under Iain Duncan Smith’s leadership of the Conservative Party.
Sir William was described by Kenneth Clarke as the most “Eurosceptic” MP.
In the book by historian Robert Blake titled The Conservative Party: from Peel to Major, Sir William is described as the leader of the Eurosceptics during the Maastricht Rebellion and as being “indefatigable… a constitutional lawyer of great expertise”.
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