Slide-rule Phil was responsible for setting budgets and paying our EU membership. He more than anyone would have been in favour of freeing us of the shackles of our EU commitment. He was probably exited by the notion that his Government could do their own Trade Deals and he would get the credit.
But he never supported no deal, because everyone he talked to from the BoE, Economists, the IMF and OECD, said that ‘No Deal’ was Economic suicide.
So he did everything he could to make a deal with the EU. And 3 times Boris Johnson voted against that deal.
So when it became apparent that Johnson was not even trying to get a deal, many in his party, including people who had been Leavers, decided it was time to act.
Hammond and others have sacrificed their long careers, in order stop a no deal brexit (which nobody voted for) and try and save their country from breaking up (which is a distinct possibility) and from ruin.
When the lunatics are eventually evicted from No.10 he (and the others) should be rewarded with a Peerage for the service and sacrifice they had made for their country.