Boris Johnson is right to be gloomy about the PM’s Brexit plan — it’s a truly dismal prospect
As the former Foreign Secretary wrote in The Sun today, Theresa May's reported plan to lock us into a customs union is an 'absolute stinker'
No EU turn, PM
THE Sun shares Boris Johnson’s gloom at Theresa May’s reported plan to lock Britain into a customs union.
This would be a humiliating capitulation that would end any hope of an independent, free-trading Britain.
As the former Foreign Secretary writes in The Sun today, it is “an absolute stinker”.
Over 17million people voted to take back control, not for Britain to pay £39billion to exist as a vassal state.
As the world’s fifth largest economy, Mrs May should have been confident of our ability to thrive outside the EU.
And yet, depressingly, she has reportedly caved in to EU chiefs, hellbent on forcing us into reversing the referendum result.
The German ambassador yesterday stressed Germany had a “vital interest” in a Brexit agreement being struck. It was refreshing to hear some common sense from our European neighbours.
If the customs union whispers are true, then Mrs May will be leading us to little more than Brexit in name only.
That is a truly dismal prospect.
Axe the tax
LOW taxes should be the main aim of a Tory Government.
A Centre for Policy Studies report reveals the public overwhelmingly don’t want higher taxes, even for the richest.
In a strong rejoinder to Labour’s hard-left proposals, the majority of people know that low taxes stimulate growth and create jobs.
Government waste is vast. As is our bloated foreign aid budget. They should be cut first.
For instance, we gave India, which has a well-established space programme, over £1billion in aid while it spent £330million building a bronze memorial. Is it any wonder only three per cent of people believe they pay too little tax?
In America the economy has boomed since Donald Trump slashed taxes. He has put money in the pockets of hard-working people and made America a top business hub again.
Low taxes here would similarly boost our economy.
The Government should remember that.
Healthy intent
THE NHS in its current form is not sustainable.
At the beginning of 2000, it accounted for 23 per cent of the Government’s public service spending. It is set to rise to 38 per cent within five years.
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People are living longer and our population is rocketing. We cannot continue throwing money into a bottomless pit.
So it is welcome that Health Secretary Matt Hancock is introducing preventative measures before people get sick. It’s about time new policies were introduced to save long-term costs.
But if the NHS is to continue, real structural change needs to happen, too.
Mr Hancock mustn’t shy away from further, more contentious reforms.