Tories need to get behind Hammond
Widdecombe
PHILIP HAMMOND made it plain in an interview with Andrew Marr that Britain is leaving the single market. He then volunteered that we would also be leaving the customs union. It was all utterly unequivocal. Yet because he voted remain (but without resorting to the nonsense of Project Fear) he has become a hate figure for those who believe that anybody who does not want an immediate cliff edge must somehow be intent on preventing Brexit altogether. So his every word is taken as a dark undermining of the Prime Minister, who herself voted to stay in that monstrous Leviathan of a superstate.
I campaigned for Brexit and I rejoice that at last we are getting rid of the shackles. I also recognise that if we are to have a smooth transition from one set of economic arrangements to another then we will need a bit of give and take so long as at the end of it we have 100 per cent control of our borders, our laws, our trading agreements and are completely free of any EU intervention.
I know from direct personal experience of having worked with him that Hammond is clever, calm and imaginative and Mrs May is lucky to have him.
BREXIT is the most important event that this country has faced for half a century. It should be treated with the seriousness it deserves and not as a football in a game of political egos. The childish machinations in the Tory Party do it no credit at all, although as the Opposition is a comedy caper the miscreants may think nobody will notice. They might care to remember all the Maastricht divisions and the resulting landslide for Blair.
Mrs May will not re-establish her authority by sacking her Chancellor but by telling the plotters to focus on making a success of Brexit or to take their backbiting elsewhere. BADDIE: Hardy as a blackmailer in TV’s Sherlock Holmes A WAITRESS at London's posh Oxford and Cambridge Club was sacked for taking her lunch home after being too busy to eat it. Haven't managers ever heard of waste not, want not? Perhaps someone should take a peek in the bins. NO, I did not tune into the Diana Tapes programme. Comments on the sex lives of married couples do not belong on the airwaves. Such matters are private whether the couple is from Buckingham Palace or 3, Railway Cuttings.
Had she not been royal, Diana would
COUNTING THE COST OF LOST LIVES
THE Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a claim on posters issued by an organisation called Both Lives Matter that 100,000 people are alive in Northern Ireland today who would not be had the 1967 Abortion Act applied there.
In the rest of the UK there have been eight million abortions in that period. Morality apart, it is worth asking whether we have been so wise. We constantly complain about the numbers of workers who come here from other countries and about the growing inbalance between old and young yet have snuffed out eight million under-50s.
Sometimes we interfere with nature at our peril. have been gagging to get on the Jeremy Kyle show. Camilla may be an adulteress but at least she has both dignity and discretion. Diana had neither and I am sorry that the Princes had to have this load of self-pitying rot heaped on them at the 20th anniversary of their mother's death.