Be-trade deal
WE’VE suspected it for months and yesterday Sir Keir Starmer as good as admitted it.
He is ready to commit the ultimate betrayal by reversing Brexit and leading Britain back into the grip of the EU.
In a statement which drives a coach and horses through Labour’s election manifesto, the PM said wants “closer realignment with the single market”.
Dress it up how you like, that means paying millions of pounds to Brussels, rule-taking on an epic scale and having no say on drafting of regulations imposed on us.
Such a move would be his biggest manifesto breach so far — and a sell-out to the 17.4 million people who voted to leave in the biggest democratic exercise in British history.
Sir Keir is a die-hard Remainer who repeatedly tried to block Brexit and force a second referendum in the aftermath of the historic vote.
In the run-up to the General Election, he made a solemn promise that there would be no return to the customs union, single market or freedom of movement.
He declared: “Brexit is safe in my hands.”
But he’s ready to drag Britain back under EU control in a shameless attempt to shore up his failing leadership by appealing to Europhile MPs and voters who have deserted Labour for the Lib Dems and Greens.
Egged on by his new head of communications Tim Allan and biographer Tom Baldwin — both fanatical Remainers — he hasn’t stopped to consider the dire consequences of re-opening this old sore.
The EU is a low-growth bloc with a fast declining share of global GDP.
He should be making the most of our new found freedoms, like the post-Brexit trade deals with modern growth regions in India, USA and the Indo-Pacific.
Does he really want to get bogged down again in the bitter arguments which paralysed Parliament for three years after the referendum?
It would be a huge distraction from stopping the migrant boats, tackling rising crime, and bringing down NHS waiting lists.
Britons want him to take back control, not give it all away again.
Truly a-biz-mal
IT was an era of disco music, tie-dye shirts and bell bottoms.
But the 1970s were also renowned for high unemployment, wildcat strikes and the winter of discontent.
It’s a common scare tactic to warn government policy will take us back to the industrial strife of the seventies.
Yet now Sir Keir Starmer has gone even further.
The psychedelic decade was a better time to do business than today, according to a poll of bosses. Well done, Prime Minister.
Could you also fix it for The Beatles to record another final album?
