Tory Remainers’ attempt to deny Brexit is betraying Britain’s democratic vote — and would see our Government collapse if successful
Brexit denied
QUESTION for Tory Remainers: who would sell their non-Brexit to the public?
Do they expect a Prime Minister to go before 17.4million Leavers, and millions more Remain voters who also believe the result should be honoured in full, and announce that it was all just too hard?
That for all intents and purposes we will have to stay in the EU’s central institutions because two dozen europhile Tories insisted on it?
That Leave may have the biggest democratic mandate the country has ever known but we cannot actually fulfil it? That free movement will need to go on?
The PM would have to resign. Her Government would collapse in ignominy. The tide of rage at this global humiliation would destroy the Tories.
The EU question would not be settled. It would be reignited with new ferocity. Ukip would be back with a vengeance.
That all seems of scant concern to MPs who treat thwarting Brexit as a Westminster parlour game.
Stay shackled to a customs union and single market rules? “Let’s just suck it up and move on,” says glib Remoaner Anna Soubry. Get that, Leavers? Anna and her friends will effectively negate your vote. Suck it up.
They were elected on Tory and Labour manifestos committed to leaving in full, but will betray those too. Suck it up.
Such is the contempt these MPs have for democracy when it delivers a result they don’t like.
We do not know if Theresa May can stop them wrecking Brexit from here.
And they seem neither to know nor care what they will unleash.
China crisis
THE alleged Chinese plot to steal defence secrets at Rolls-Royce exposes their grave threat to global security.
Russia gets all the headlines. It is more thuggish and blatant, with its invasions, war crimes and chemical weapons.
China is far bigger, richer, more powerful and more subtle.
It is massively expanding its economic empire throughout the world — along with its military and a network of spies and cyber-warriors dedicated to filching state secrets and intellectual property.
We should have no desire to make enemies of China. Indeed, if we are ever able to strike our own trade deals post-Brexit, it should be among the first.
But we must be alive to its dangers, and punish harshly those caught betraying us.
Yes we Kane
WHAT a summer of passion, drama and potential heartbreak it’s going to be — we’ll be glued to every second.
No, not Love Island. The World Cup, kicking off at 4pm.
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The Sun wishes our lads every ounce of luck on Monday.
As Shakespeare so nearly wrote: “The game’s a-footer. Cry ‘God for Harry Kane, England and Saint George!’ ”