Two Cabinet ministers told the Sunday Telegraph plans under discussion include blocking the EU’s 2021-2027 budget, which is currently expected to be signed off in March, as well as sending Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage to Brussels as Britain’s next EU commissioner.
Yesterday the move was openly supported by Steve Baker, the former Brexit minister, who compared it to shooting “a nuclear weapon into the heart of the asteroid”.
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He told Chopper’s Brexit Podcast: “I unashamedly back Nigel Farage to be our next EU commissioner in the unfortunate event that it transpires.
“This approach is inspired by the film Armageddon.
“There is that moment when they are trying to save the world and so what they do is they land on the asteroid and they put a nuclear weapon into the heart of the asteroid.
“Nigel Farage is that nuclear weapon”.
