David Cameron’s supporters need to get a grip – EU failings, not Theresa May, brought about Brexit
MAY is painted as a villain by two new books - as she was a lukewarm Remainer who told Cameron no free movement deal would be possible
IT’S only been three months since the EU referendum. But now we’re getting the insider accounts.
According to both books serialised yesterday — one by Sir Craig Oliver, a key aide to David Cameron, the other by a leading political journalist — the real villain of the piece is Theresa May.
Villain, that is, from the perspective of David Cameron. Mrs May is said to have been lukewarm about backing the Remain campaign — and to have made clear to Mr Cameron her view that no deal with Angela Merkel over free movement was possible.
David Cameron thinks the Remainers could have won if Mrs May had behaved differently.
Deluded doesn’t even come close.
Remain lost because Mrs May was right. Even now, after we’ve voted to leave, the German Chancellor is still refusing to budge on free movement.
The fact we couldn’t do anything serious about immigration as EU members was the very reason we had to leave.
That’s why Boris Johnson is now saying we must put the slogan “take back control of our borders” into practice.
And it’s why even Labour figures such as Chuka Umunna have realised that border control is the key issue.
As for Mrs May not speaking enough in the campaign: Mr Cameron asked for her loyalty and he got it. She wasn’t enthusiastic about Remain, so she didn’t pretend to be.
Sir Craig’s book is meant to show how everyone else except Sir Craig was to blame for Remain losing.
It does the opposite, demonstrating how the Cameroons still haven’t grasped what happened on June 23.
Sorry excuse
JOHN McDonnell has made a habit of rabble-rousing with violent language.
He’s told rallies that the IRA should be honoured. He’s said he would like to have assassinated Margaret Thatcher.
He’s gone through the motions of apologies.
Now he’s refusing to say sorry for calling ex-Tory minister Esther McVey a “stain on humanity” and repeating a so-called joke about lynching her.
He is barely fit to be an MP — let alone Shadow Chancellor.
The fact Jeremy Corbyn appointed him shows the utter hypocrisy of the Labour leader’s claim to want a “gentler” politics.
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