Theresa May will use Brexit to make Britain work for ordinary people again – but she needs your help
Writing for The Sun, the PM reveals she will unveil her flagship new industrial strategy next week to make the country 'more equal'
THERESA May vows to use Brexit to rip up the privileges of the elite and make Britain work for ordinary people again.
Writing for The Sun, the PM reveals she will unveil her flagship new industrial strategy next week to start her mission to make the country “more equal”.
And she also issues an emotive plea to Sun readers directly to support her new Brexit plan and help unite the country again.
The blueprint for the nation’s workplaces of the future will tear down “the barriers of privilege” and “spread wealth and opportunity”, Mrs May insists.
And in another revolutionary pitch that may trouble more traditional Tories, the PM also pledges to not just protect workers’ rights but also “build on them”.
Also on a day dominated by reaction to the PM’s unveiling of her landmark 12-point Brexit plan:
- Boris Johnson sparked furore by likening France’s president to a World War Two prisoner of war camp commandant.
- Michael Gove weighed in to support him by delivering his own Nazi analogy, and branding the Foreign secretary’s attackers “deliberately obtuse, snowflakes”.
- Malta’s PM said our EU exit deal would have to be “inferior to membership”, but other pleased Brussels chiefs likened Mrs May’s speech to Winston Churchill’s visions.
- The Supreme Court revealed it will deliver its verdict on whether MPs must sign off Article 50 departure talks next Tuesday.
Senior No10 aides insisted that Mrs May’s industrial strategy will be the first part of her long-term plan to leave a bigger legacy from her Premiership than just delivering Brexit.
She insists her 12 point EU departure road map “is just part of my Plan for Britain”.
Instead, she promises Sun readers to forge “a Britain – and a Brexit – that works for ordinary working people”.
'Just like Churchill'
AN EU bigwig compared the PM’s rhetoric to wartime legend Winston Churchill as Europe gave her Brexit plan a cautious welcome.
Senior Foreign Office sources said the extraordinary bluntness of Mrs May’s “deal or no deal” left many of them “stunned”.
Relieved it didn’t repeat Donald Trump’s withering assault on Brussels, EU Council boss Donald Tusk dubbed it “much closer to the narrative of Churchill than President-elect Trump”.
But he warned: “There will be no place for pick and choose tactics.”
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Mrs May writes: “Our Modern Industrial Strategy, which we will publish next week, will lay the foundations to build a more prosperous and more equal Britain.
“We will spread wealth and opportunity across every community.
“And we will help young people to develop the skills they need to do the high-paid, high-skilled jobs of the future.”
Giving further clues to the scope of her blue collar revolution, the PM adds: “We will create a fairer society by breaking down the barriers of privilege and making Britain a great meritocracy where success is defined by work and talent, not birth or circumstance”.
But to do that, Mrs May also insists she needs Sun readers’ help.
Issuing her battle cry for support, the PM adds: “Making this a reality will depend on another essential ingredient of our success as a nation.
“The strength and support of 65 million people willing us to make it happen.
“So as Sun readers, I urge you to support this plan and to help us bring our country back together.”
Mrs May will start to sell her bold EU departure plan to the world in Davos tomorrow.
Speaking at the annual gathering of leaders and business bosses in the Swiss ski resort, the PM will insist the UK is ready to start drawing up trade deals all over the globe.
But she will also repeat her warning that the world’s richest nations must act to curb the downsides of globalisation on its left behind communities.
Gunners' new No. 10
THE PM comes out all Gunners blazing for Brexit — sporting a puffer jacket that wouldn’t have looked out of place on Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger.
Theresa May paired her warm coat with a £995 black leather handbag with striking gold chain by Brit Amanda Wakeley.
Mrs May — who last month wore the same designer’s leather trousers, costing almost a grand — wrapped up as she headed out of No 10 for Prime Minister’s Questions.