Theresa May must win crucial Commons vote to save Brexit and her job
If the Prime Minister fails to steer Britain past cross-party rebels determined to derail Brexit then she is not the right politician to lead this country
THERESA May has only one hope of saving Brexit and her job. She must win the crucial Commons votes on Wednesday.
If not — and Tory Remainers successfully rule out us ever leaving with no deal — our negotiating position is toast.
The EU will offer nothing. It will wait for talks to collapse and for those same Remainers to vote with their Labour allies to keep us tied to Brussels, paying in billions and accepting free movement.
God help the Tories and our democracy if that happens.
If the PM wins next week she MUST back Boris Johnson’s “max fac” plan for the Irish border issue.
So should Cabinet Brexiters.
It will work — and allows Britain the future we want as an independent global trading nation.
Rebel Tories and Remainer aides in No10 must not destroy it by effectively keeping us in the EU in defiance of 17million voters.
Healthy sum
ALMOST everyone will welcome the Tories’ massive new injection of money into the ailing NHS. The Sun does too.
But we cannot afford to keep hosing down this bottomless pit with extra cash. National Insurance has increased twice since 2002 to shore it up.
The Government is right to resist a third rise, though stealthier taxes are inevitable.
The reality is that our population is far greater than when the NHS was founded. We are living longer, getting fatter and needing ever pricier drugs.
Given those pressures, the health service badly needs reinvention — a cross-party rethink about what it should now be doing and how to fund it.
Rights wrong
CITING “human rights” worries to reject an amnesty for our veterans of the Troubles in Northern Ireland is cravenly spineless.
What about the rights of old soldiers living in fear over action they took in the heat of battle four decades ago?
This witch-hunt into them, while IRA killers have a free pass, is appalling.
But instead of ending it, and risking a possible scrap with the European Court of Human Rights, Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley has refused.
Too many Government ministers timidly surrender to civil service caution.
They should just take the right side of the argument and brave any consequences.
Issue skirted
TORY Christopher Chope is out of his mind.
The MP loves to scupper Bills he doesn’t think are thought through.
But an “upskirting” law is entirely justified and has near universal support from the Government, politicians and public.
A public that now thinks old Tories side with perverts.
Great job, sir.