Article 4R71Z Brexit: 'Not surprising' people are angry with MPs, says Dominic Cummings – as it happened

Brexit: 'Not surprising' people are angry with MPs, says Dominic Cummings – as it happened

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PM's adviser says some politicians have failed to respect referendum result, 'what do you expect to happen?'

10.38pm BST

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Cummings has also said serious threats of violence have been seen on both sides, adding that the "situation can only be resolved by parliament honouring its promise to respect the result" of the 2016 referendum.

People on all sides have said things that veered between unwise and very unpleasant, and sometimes criminal. That is true of people of the leave side and that's true of people on the remain side.

People have been running around during the referendum campaign saying I was a Nazi, they run around for three years afterwards saying I am a criminal, and now a criminal Nazi.

I don't think anyone is going to listen to reason because a lot of people (MPs) become really badly disconnected from what people in the real world and England outside central London thinks.

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