Go back, PM
Let us first say, though, that we cannot help but admire the extraordinary resilience and even good humour she showed for hours on end yesterday as her Government, party and plan fell apart.
But there is no point in just doubling down and hoping for the best. Britain must retain the power to leave the Customs Union when WE say. Not when Brussels grants us permission — which it has no intention ever of doing.
This is fundamental to Brexit, to reclaiming our sovereignty, including the crucial right to make our own trade deals and open up our markets to the wider world. That has always been central to The Sun’s outward-looking vision of Brexit.
Yes, this paper wants our Government to control immigration, just like all non-EU nations, but we DO want skilled migrants coming here to boost our economy and better their lives. And, unlike some, we are entirely relaxed about new blue British passports being printed in France.
Our Brexit priority is to trade independently beyond the Brussels club. Locked inside its customs union we cannot. And the PM’s “backstop” agreement would give us LESS power to leave this central institution of the EU than ever before. No one can call that taking back control.
This is too valuable a prize to barter away. It is vital for our future prosperity and the EU knows it — which is why it was so desperate to prevent it.
Michel Barnier now knows this agreement he has extracted from No10 and wants the EU to sign off faces a heavy defeat here. Mrs May should go back to him, as her ex-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab suggests, and try again.
Fix that sticking point and her deal might just have a prayer.
It’s no future
THE Government’s super-soft deal, as it stands, is not a viable or stable future for Britain. Nor is a second referendum that hands Remainers victory.
Britain was already staunchly eurosceptic two years ago when we voted Leave despite the onslaught of state-funded pro-Brussels propaganda. The animosity towards Brussels is tenfold now. Even many Remainers are disgusted at the EU’s behaviour — and the capitulation inherent in our deal.
How would the nation respond if it went ahead? With rage, at the Tories and the EU whose arrogance enforced it. The beneficiaries would be Ukip, or a party even more extreme, committed to Brexit in full. The deal would not last.
Nor would Remain winning a second vote solely through fear of a no-deal. It would solve nothing and heal nothing. It would cause mayhem and unrest.
The anger of 17million cheated Leavers, and others who recognise a democratic outrage when they see one, would explode.
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