Theresa May must bring the Remainers to a halt if she wants Brexit to be a success
For too long the Prime Minister has looked as if she is doing her best for Leave voters without much conviction
THE Remainers are on a roll. Theresa May must bring them to a halt.
For too long the Prime Minister has looked as if she is doing her best for Leave voters without much conviction.
That cannot go on. She must champion Brexit with all her energy if it is to be the success she wants.
Her Government is perpetually on the back foot. The PM speaks of Brexit only in rehearsed responses when questioned.
She has unwittingly gifted Remainers the stage for a full-blooded fightback.
They demand to stay in the single market, thus forever surrendering control over immigration and much more.
Their true motive is to overturn the biggest democratic vote in UK history.
Still new to the game, the Lib Dems’ Richmond by-election winner Sarah Olney blurts it out: “It does look now as if we can have a vote in Parliament that might override the referendum.”
No wonder her PR man later dragged her away from a radio microphone.
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It’s no great shock a Remain candidate won in a heavily Remain constituency. But it does fuel Leave voters’ fears that their democratic will might yet be denied ... by Tony Blair, with his staff and money, by well-funded and lengthy legal challenges, by stonewalling in Brussels.
Mrs May must seize on the fact that events since June have shifted strongly in Brexit’s favour. The crumbling EU is even weaker. Votes in Italy and Austria tomorrow could derail it further.
The new US President, a Brexit fan, wants a trade deal. So do others.
Buoyant economic news has made a mockery of Project Fear’s forecasts of an immediate downturn. Only yesterday Berkeley, the house builders, reported a 34 per cent rise in pre-tax profits.
The PM needs to get on the front foot.
We know she has confidence in our future. She needs to do more to show it.
Both to voters here and to EU leaders who still think Brexit can be halted.
Booze tax folly
WILL the public health lobby ever stop clamouring for higher taxes on the poor?
To fight obesity they demanded a sugar tax on fizzy drinks, which failed elsewhere and hits the low-paid hardest.
Now they’ve had the same brilliant idea for alcohol. Why? Boozing peaked eight years ago and has been falling since.
Tax is not the answer. Better education is.
Over the top
DID boob-flashing cop Rebekah Sutcliffe have to be threatened with the destruction of her career and pension?
She got trollied and exposed herself while insulting a junior officer in a bar.
Unpleasant behaviour, certainly.
But did a drunken rant really require a full two-day hearing with the Chief Inspector of Constabulary?
A warning — plus a grovelling apology from her — would surely have covered it.