ANALYSIS

Lisa Nandy got ‘rot’ slur

LABOUR MPs who backed the Brexit deal in Parliament have faced an onslaught of vile abuse from Remainers.

A group of 19 gave crucial support to proposed new laws that would take Britain out of the EU when they were put to the Commons for the first time.

But the rebels faced a torrent of foul insults online, including being branded “scum”.

Lisa Nandy, whose

Wigan constituency returned a 64 per cent vote to leave the EU, was among those abused.

One message said: “You should have your fat a*** kicked out of the party. I don’t know how anyone could walk past you without holding their nose. I hope you rot in hell.”

Another ranted: “Your utter, selfish, ignorance has just LOST Labour any chance of winning an election.”

Ruth Smeeth, who represents Brexit-backing Stoke-onTrent North, was called a “f ****** disgrace”.

Five Labour MPs – Caroline Flint, Kevin Barron, Jim Fitzpatrick, Kate Hoey and John Mann – were branded “traitors who should join the Tory party” after backing the

BORIS Johnson is today expected to suffer another crushing Commons defeat with MPs set to reject his Queen’s Speech programme of legislative proposals.

In normal times, such a reverse marks a calamity. No prime minister since Stanley Baldwin in 1924 has lost such a vote. He was ousted from Downing Street as a result.

Yet with Parliament paralysed, Mr Johnson will carry on regardless.

The Brexit saga coupled with his lack of a working Commons majority threaten to leave MPs in a recurring nightmare.

“I feel punch-drunk,” one Tory backbencher told me yesterday in the aftermath of MPs sabotaging the timetable of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill. “The whole Brexit process is completely out of our control.”

Dithering

Most Tory MPs are convinced that dissolving Parliament and holding a general election is now the only way to end this bizarre state of limbo.

Polls suggest the Prime Minister could win a majority he needs to deliver Brexit.

A series of surveys have given Tories a double-digit lead over dithering Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour Party.

A YouGov poll yesterday found 50 per cent of voters in favour of an early election with only 23 per cent against.

Labour remains the big obstacle to that election.

Many Labour MPs are apparently terrified of a poll that could cost their party dozens of seats.

Mr Corbyn’s aides seem to have an endless supply of excuses for not holding the election just yet.

But Labour’s political game playing could mean they are heading for a seismic defeat once voters finally get to deliver their verdict on the current broken Parliament.