Richard Tice, who founded the Leave Means Leave pro-Brexit group, suggested British voters felt betrayed after the British Government asked for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union past March 29. Mr Tice joined hundreds of disenchanted Brexit supporters who marched from Sunderland to London to protest Theresa May and her failure to deliver on their vote by the agreed exit date. Upon his arrival to the capital ahead of a rally in Parliament Square, the Brexiteer told Sky News: “We trusted the MPs when they completed the European Withdrawal Act last year to leave today with or without a deal.

“Sadly, the MPs don’t seem to share the courage and belief in Britain that we’ve experienced the length of the country as we carried out this march.

“We’ve got a huge rally at four o’clock this afternoon. Tens and tens of thousands of people in Parliament Square to make our voice heard. What we’re doing today is to make a very big noise in a clear demonstration to MPs that actually democracy is seriously at stake.”

Despite suffering humiliating defeat twice, Theresa May will once again put her proposed withdrawal deal to the vote at 2.30pm to secure an extension until May 22. Should Parliament vote down the agreement a third time, the UK will have until April 12 to find an alternative arrangement or prepare to leave on no deal terms. 

Mr Tice continued: “If MPs think they can somehow try and thwart or delay or stop Brexit, then they really need to think again.

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“The mood of the country is actually, ‘do you know what? We believe in Britain, can we just leave? Can we just get on with it? Can we save £39 billion?’

“And actually, the mood of the country is ‘let’s go WTO, let’s get on with it, let’s create some certainty’.”

Mr Tice has been a long-time proponent of Britain leaving the EU without a formal agreement to revert to World Trade Organisation (WTO) terms. 

As a member of WTO, Britain would adopt so-called WTO schedules – a list of tariffs and quotas which are applied to other countries – to trade with European Union countries. 

The option appeared to meet with the approval of former Bank of England Governor, Lord Mervyn King, who suggested the Prime Minister should seek a six-month extension of Article 50 to prepare to quit the bloc on WTO terms.

Lord King told the BBC: “My own personal preference would be to go back to Europe and say we have a clear strategy which is we want to leave without a deal. But we would like to take six months to complete the preparations to avoid the dislocation.

“I think we would have to take advice from the Government and officials as to how long they now think it would take before our country is ready to leave without a deal.”

Under the terms of an agreement with Brussels, if passed by MPs on Friday the vote would qualify the UK to be granted an automatic delay to May 22 of the formal date of Brexit.

Mrs May’s move allows the Tories to present the situation as a choice between a short delay to Brexit and the potential for a much longer one, which would mean taking part in European Parliament elections.

But it would not let Parliament go ahead and ratify the withdrawal deal, as Brexit legislation allows this only after the passage of a “meaningful vote” on both the Withdrawal Agreement and a Political Declaration on the future relationship.

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