Self-serving attack by a bitter Remainer

As one of the main architects of Project Fear – the campaign of hysterical scaremongering designed to terrify the British people into staying in the EU – one might have expected Craig Oliver to observe a period of dignified silence following his side’s resounding referendum defeat. although largely unknown outside political circles, downing Street’s former communications director – knighted in david Cameron’s much- derided resignation honours list – was a key player in Remain’s propaganda offensive. Primed by Mr Cameron and George Osborne, his job was to pump out a stream of dubious claims about the catastrophe Brexit would wreak – the economy would instantly collapse, the housing market nosedive and every family would be £4,300 a year worse off.

Of course, the public saw through the mendacity and voted for Brexit anyway. and – surprise, surprise – so far, all those apocalyptic predictions have turned out to be false, leaving Sir Craig and his fellow Remainers not just beaten but humiliated.

But now, instead of retiring from the public arena to reflect, Sir Craig has published a vituperative memoir attacking Theresa May for failing to support Mr Cameron during the referendum campaign.

He has rushed it out ahead of next week’s Tory conference and clearly wants to sow division in the party.

Sir Craig is the epitome of the arrogant political class. an obscure, middleranking BBC executive before being propelled into Number 10, he has no track record in public service and has never been elected to any office. How he could be given a knighthood merely for being Mr Cameron’s spin doctor remains a mystery. Yet he has the audacity to question the integrity and motives of the new Prime Minister in this self- serving book – for which he is naturally being paid a fat fee.

Sir Craig is a classic example of why the public has lost faith in British politics. Like so many at Westminster, he appears far more interested in lining his pockets than in loyalty, or service to his country.

Fortunately, Britain now has a leader determined to promote a more honest, upright kind of politics and steer Britain to a prosperous post-Brexit future.

if the embittered Remainers can’t get behind her in this vital mission, they could at least accept they’ve lost the argument and have the decency to stop their incessant moaning.