Now Brussels will be negotiating with the warring factions within Parliament, instead of just with the Prime Minister and the Brexit Secretary
LAST night’s Brexit defeat is a bitter humiliation for the Government and a moment of shame for the Tory “rebels”.
They have utterly compromised their own leader and Prime Minister, just days after her breakthrough last week and on the brink of the EU summit.
And they have handed a victory to all those still bent on overturning the biggest democratic mandate in our history.
The PM must find a solution. She and David Davis have to be able to negotiate our historic trade deal without fearing Remainers in Parliament will kill it.
But Brussels now knows that europhile MPs and peers, and an entirely self-interested Labour Party, are waiting to pick any deal to pieces and send the Government back to try again.
Britain backed Brexit. MPs voted overwhelmingly to carry it out. It should fall to the PM and Brexit Secretary to drive as hard a bargain as possible.
But Brussels will now effectively be negotiating not with them but with the warring factions of our Parliament.
That’s an impossible farce.
Remainers dressed this up as a battle for democracy. For most the real goal is to delay or halt Brexit or, failing that, “soften” it to meaninglessness.
Some EU nations are already champing at the bit to give us a tailor-made deal. We should be capitalising on that.
But how can the Government negotiate it with any focus now, while living in fear of more Remainer rebellions back home?
UNDER Jeremy Corbyn, Labour is a magnet for anti-Semites disguising their disgusting racism as concern for Palestinians.
Party bosses know it’s toxic.
So deputy leader Tom Watson says a boycott of Israeli goods is “morally wrong”. Emily Thornberry rightly brands it “bigotry”.
She should tell it to her bigoted front bench colleague Kate Osamor, who backs exactly such sanctions against the Middle East’s only liberal democracy.
Corbyn won’t discipline her. Why would he? He’s rabidly anti-Israel himself.
Osamor is typical of the dim, naive lightweights around Corbyn who see even the world’s most complex problems as a battle between goodies and baddies.
WHAT hope do our young people have of buying a home if most new ones are snapped up by rich foreign speculators?
The prices are bad enough. But when 90 per cent of a development is sold overseas what chance have Brits got?
The Government should listen to Tory MP Chris Philp. He wants half of all new homes reserved for UK residents.
The Tories are making slow but steady progress on house-building.
We need more dramatic steps to ensure they end up with British first-time buyers.
