Tory MP Sir Robert Goodwill, quoted in the Independent, once said Britain, out of the EU, should “take back control and bring an end to free movement once and for all”.
Since then, he has written to the Government asking it to “ensure free movement of cultivated plant biodiversity”.
Many have hit back against the ex Home Office Immigration Minister’s call, branding it “backwards”.
Naomi Smith, Chief Executive of pro-EU campaign group Best for Britain, told the paper: “For those who campaigned so energetically against the free movement for British people to ironically now call for the free movement of plants, is the clearest distillation of the heartless, irrational and backwards priorities that drives some Eurosceptics.”
On Twitter, Nic Allen wrote: “Great for ERG ‘Staunch eurosceptic’ Tory MP believing plants are more important than people after he and his Brexiters meanly removed freedom for our 18million young people to travel, work, study, live in 27 EU countries.
“Petty minded, isolationist and shortsighted.”
