Tory chief James Cleverly claims there will be riots on the streets if Remainers block Brexit

TORY chief James Cleverly claims there will be riots on the streets if Remainers block Brexit.

Mr Cleverly made reference to the violence that erupted in London in 2011 and said: “I never want to go through something like that again.”

I PREDICT A RIOT

The Tory party chairman, and Braintree MP, was asked at a Politico event if he feared that there could be a repeat of eight years ago if we fail to leave the EU, he said: “I do”.

Mr Cleverly’s comments come after Remainer MP Dominic Grieve accused the Government of "talking up" the threat of to justify invoking emergency powers to ensure Brexit.

Grieve – one of 21 Tory MPs sacked by Boris Johnson for trying to block No Deal Brexit – was responding to remarks by a senior Johnson ally in The Times.

One senior cabinet minister said the country risked a "violent, popular uprising" if a second referendum overturned the original result.

Mr Grieve said: "The message coming from Downing St is – we have to leave by October 31 or there will be riots.

The message coming from Downing St is – we have to leave by October 31 or there will be riots.

"My suspicion is that they may be planning to use the 2004 Civil Contingencies Act to suspend that law on the grounds that otherwise there will be riots before and afterwards."

Last week the PM was slammed by furious Remainers who claimed his aggressive language, including the term “surrender bill”, was leading to death threats.

Mr Johnson has come under further fire this week after a journalist accused him of groping her when he was the editor of The Spectator.

Charlotte Edwardes claimed he squeezed her leg during an event in 1999.

However, today the PM described the allegations as “very sad” and said they were motivated by people trying to block us divorcing Brussels.

He told BBC Breakfast: “They [the claims] are not true.

“It’s very sad for someone to make such allegations, it’s not true.

"I don’t minimise the importance of such allegations and the importance of the issue. But it is not true and there’s nothing really more I can say."

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