Brexit Britain is going to need a hero… time to unleash Boris Johnson
Sun columnist says EU negotiators pretend to be grumpy, but they love Boris too
THERESA MAY likes to hedge her bets until she knows for sure which horse to back.
But by seeking and winning the job as our post-Brexit PM, she has not just picked the favourite — she is in the saddle and galloping at full speed.
The question for the country she now leads is whether she is relishing the ride of her life or clinging on like grim death.
Brexit means Brexit, says Mrs M. No weasel words will stop it.
So why doesn’t she act like the leader of a cause she truly believes in?
Why doesn’t she offer it her wholehearted embrace?
OK, she spoke up for David Cameron’s Remain campaign — but almost under her breath.
Previously, she often hinted at deep scepticism about the mess Brussels is making.
But whatever her views before June 23, she is our Prime Minister now and we need to hear her say clearly and distinctly why Brexit must be good for Britain.
Downing Street insists there will be no running commentary. This is top-drawer diplomacy, conducted discreetly with cards close to the chest.
“It keeps me awake at night,” admits Mrs May, and she is entitled to our sympathy.
Brexit is the toughest political challenge faced by Britain in peacetime.
But diplomacy is war by other means. And in wartime, keeping up public morale is as crucial as sending troops into battle.
Right now, Britain needs a cheerleader.
It need not be Mrs May herself who takes on this role. She has a Foreign Secretary who is designed and built to keep up public spirits.
It was Boris Johnson’s breezy brio that gave millions the confidence to vote Out in the first place.
He should be unleashed without constraint on his jokes or his ripe language. They are what give him star quality.
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EU negotiators pretend to be grumpy, but they love him, too. He speaks their languages, after all.
In any case, we don’t need to keep our cards close to our chest. We hold nearly all the trumps. We can tell Brussels what we want and let them decide how to respond.
The UK has plenty of ammunition. Pessimists search for dark clouds behind the silver lining but nobody can ignore our boom in jobs, growth, exports and retail sales since the referendum.
Jaguar plans 10,000 new jobs and a million new cars a year.
Google is investing £1billion and 3,000 jobs. America, Canada, India and Australia are queuing to sign trade deals.
China wants to splurge £4billion on a new Canary Wharf.
These global giants are choosing to invest their billions HERE, not France or Italy or even Germany.
Indeed, German firms want to expand here too and are begging Chancellor Angela Merkel to cut a deal with us.
These are hard, cheering facts, not gloomy forecasts by thumb-sucking “experts”.
In addition, the PM has more subtle cards to play.
The EU is perhaps already in a death spiral.
Chief negotiator Guy Verhofstadt admits Brexit might be the trigger for disintegration.
Next week’s Italian referendum could mark the beginning of the end of the euro.
Squabbling EU states need us more than we need them.
Brexit is the toughest political challenge faced by Britain in peacetime
Chancellor Merkel is terrified of being left alone with France and the others without our £14billion a year to keep them afloat.
All the angry words and threats from Brussels are . . . just words.
Ghostly has-beens such as Tony Blair and John Major make total clots of themselves by denouncing the “tyranny of the majority” and calling for another referendum.
With Project Fear eclipsed by so much economic sunshine, the Brexit majority would turn into a landslide.
Yet, thanks to the BBC, the Moaning Minnies who refuse to accept the June 23 verdict are filling the Government’s silence with black propaganda.
Worried voters need to see and hear Theresa May and her Brexit ministers out there on the front foot, speaking up enthusiastically about Britain’s prospects of freedom and prosperity.
Why doesn’t Theresa give Blair and Major a piece of her mind? And all those useless EU leaders who have got it so wrong on so much?
She’s quite capable of it.
There is a strong, confident story to tell. It needs to be told with clarity and conviction, not timorous caution.
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