Chairman of the European Research Group Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that attempts to extend the deadline for the UK’s exit from the EU are a Remainer plot to stop Brexit.

Speaking on his LBC radio show Friday evening, the Tory MP for North East Somerset warned, “There are only ten weeks to go and the Remainers are getting desperate — the ones that never accepted the result, don’t think that the people who voted to leave are very bright, think that people like me should have gone back to school to learn the virtues of the EU.

“They are the ones who are trying to get an extension of Article 50.”

“Lots of MPs say they accept the result but they’ve got their fingers crossed when they say it, and they’re doing everything they can to frustrate it. The proposed bill to delay the date – put forward by @YvetteCooperMP – is an attempt to stop Brexit” @Jacob_Rees_Mogg#LBC pic.twitter.com/N2EmP65nRW — #StandUp4Brexit (@StandUp4Brexit) January 18, 2019

Article 50 is the legal mechanism for leaving the European Union, which states that if the UK does not forge a withdrawal agreement, the UK will leave the EU on March 29th and trade with the bloc on World Trade Organization (WTO) terms.

Cross-party Remainers have been attempting in the past weeks to bloc a clean, WTO exit, with efforts intensifying after Prime Minister Theresa May’s unpopular Withdrawal Agreement was voted down on Tuesday.

Breitbart London reported earlier this month that a group of Remainer MPs, led by Labour’s Yvette Cooper, plotted to “block some of the Treasury’s no-deal powers unless Parliament has explicitly voted for no deal or unless the Government has requested an extension of Article 50.”

“The difficulty is that lots of MPs say that they accept the result and they’ve got their fingers crossed when they say it. And they’re doing everything they can to frustrate it,” Mr Rees-Mogg continued.