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THE SUN SAYS

Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab is right that without a deal the post-Brexit divorce bill will ‘not be paid’

Brussels has proven how clueless they really are when they admit they don't have a Plan B, but then they expect us to still pay

Dominic Raab is made of steel when it comes to these negotiations

Money talks

WHAT will Brussels do without our ­billions? Er . . . it hasn’t a clue.

Its budget chief says there’s no Plan B. They’re relying on us carrying on paying.

 Dominic Raab is made of steel when it comes to these negotiations
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Dominic Raab is made of steel when it comes to these negotiationsCredit: AP:Associated Press

Which betrays incredible complacency. And shows why we would be insane to help them out by handing over a bean without anything in return.

There is steel behind Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab’s threat that without a deal the exit “bill” will not be paid in “the same shape, or speed, or rate”. We need that strength from Theresa May.

She cannot compromise beyond her already over-generous Chequers offer without fatal damage to her Government.

Her ex-guru Nick Timothy is publicly warning her off, and rightly so.

 Gunther Oettinger said there is no Plan B
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Gunther Oettinger said there is no Plan BCredit: AFP

Our approach has been compromised by fear. It needs to be replaced by belief and confidence: we will thrive come what may.

Left the Field

SO one Labour MP at least has some guts. Frank Field could stand it no longer.

It wasn’t just the Jew-hating racism of Corbyn and his goons. Field couldn’t bear the infiltration by Trotskyite thugs who vilify those they consider enemies.

 Labour MP Frank Field has quit and will sit as an independent
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Labour MP Frank Field has quit and will sit as an independentCredit: PA:Press Association

He and John Woodcock, who has already resigned the whip, are two of the best MPs Labour had. As for the other moderates, where’s their backbone?

They remain . . . as the enablers of Corbyn and his rancid wrecking crew.

Coward’s plea

SPEEDBOAT killer Jack Shepherd is making a mockery of our justice system. His appeal must not be heard.

It is jaw-dropping that this arrogant idiot could flee before his manslaughter trial, then appeal against conviction from some unknown foreign bolthole.

 Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd is on the run after being convicted of manslaughter over Charlotte Brown’s death in December 2015
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Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd is on the run after being convicted of manslaughter over Charlotte Brown’s death in December 2015Credit: Central News

No court should hear it. It would give any criminal a licence to do the same.

Shepherd’s lawyers may not have a duty to divulge his whereabouts. But it would be morally wrong not to tell him to return to face the music. They should not represent him until he does.

This coward killed a woman through drunken negligence. Now he sickeningly aims to cheat her family of justice.

Police interview with Jack Shepherd who encouraged date Charlotte Brown to drive defective speedboat

Google shame

HOW shameful it will be if Google censors its searches to make billions in China.

 Jeremy Hunt called reports tech giant is planning a new censored search app to comply with Beijing’s strict rules on blocking webpages as ‘extraordinary’
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Jeremy Hunt called reports tech giant is planning a new censored search app to comply with Beijing’s strict rules on blocking webpages as ‘extraordinary’Credit: Reuters

Not just because the Chinese should be freely able to use the web. But because Google and YouTube host child abuse images, terror videos and other dangerous content here which they fail, or even refuse, to delete.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt was dead right to call out the tech giants, who have snubbed an international meeting to discuss a crackdown.

Is the problem simply that there’s no money in it for them?

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