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The trade expert dismantled Prime Minister Theresa May’s Chequers proposal and predicted the British people will take part in another vote on Brexit by the end of 2018. Speaking on RT UK, Mr Hunter said: “The Government, because they’re a bunch of incompetent cowards in the United Kingdom, they do not have the guts to be able to say ‘right we are going to be able to make a decision. “We know Brexit is a disaster. We can’t do Chequers, we can’t do no deal. So, because we can’t make a decision by ourselves we are going to put a vote to the people’. “And we will have a people’s vote, I expect, by the end of this year.

The Chequers deal is off the table Jason Hunter

“And if the people say ‘look, now we know and now we are smarter and know what the situation is, we still want to go ahead and destroy our economy and destroy our jobs across various sectors in the UK then so be it’. “But I suspect the country is smarter than that.” Mr Hunter also ripped into the UK’s proposed Brexit deal, which calls for close regulatory alignment with the EU’s single market for British exports. The proposal includes plans to create a ”common rule book” – involving a free trade area with the EU on industrial and agricultural goods.

Brexit news: Trade expert Jason Hunter said the Chequers deal is "off the table"