THE Prime Minister has been accused of ‘chasing unicorns’ as Brexit looms large.

Liz Saville Roberts, MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, slammed Prime Minister Theresa May for accepting calls for changes to her Brexit deal which have already been ruled out by Europe, and criticised the Labour party for abstaining on an amendment to give the devolved parliaments a greater role in Brexit.

Mrs Saville Roberts said that ‘chasing unicorns is not a plan’ and called on the Prime Minister to stop pandering to extreme Brexiteers in her own party.

She made the comments following a vote in Westminster on the different options on how to proceed, following the historic defeat of the Prime Minister’s deal last month.

Following last week’s vote, Mrs Saville Roberts said: “No Deal is being taken off the table and we should have put an end to ‘No Progress’ too. But the Prime Minister insists on pursuing the undeliverable.

“Let me be very clear to the Prime Minister, chasing unicorns is not a plan.

“The Government is now facing an inescapable contradiction. No Deal has been taken off the table, but her own backbenches has called for the backstop to be removed – a change which the Prime Minister herself said would lead to a No Deal Brexit.

“As the Prime Minister looks to the Brexit extremists on her own backbenches for the answers, whole nations are ignored. The needs and concerns of Wales continue to be an afterthought.’

“For the Brexit extremists, their departure is not from the EU, but reality itself. Be it the vagueness of the ‘Brady amendment’, or the fact the EU has already ruled out almost every aspect of it, these are the same unicorns the Conservative party were chasing at the start of this process.

“Fundamentally, the only thing that has been confirmed, once again, is that Westminster is simply not fit for purpose.”

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