Will Remainers hand back this tainted cash?

THEY are words you might not expect to read in this Brexit-supporting newspaper, but today the Mail applauds Remain campaigner Gina Miller.

Indeed, by defending British democracy against a conspiracy to subvert it by an elitist clique of Remoaner multimillionaires, led by the HungarianAmerican financier George Soros, she has proved herself a woman of principle.

True, this paper has had sharp differences with Mrs Miller, famous for attempting to derail Brexit by persuading unaccountable judges to rule that EU withdrawal couldn’t begin without a Parliamentary vote.

But her condemnation of Soros’s scheming to overturn Brexit – using his tainted money to manipulate MPs and public opinion, in the hope of bringing down the Government or forcing a second referendum – has been nothing short of exemplary.

It is all the more laudable, since Mr Soros has given £400,000 to Best for Britain, a Remainer group she herself founded, but which she now brands ‘undemocratic’.

‘This idea of bringing down a government and guerrilla warfare, I don’t agree with any of that,’ she says. ‘It doesn’t matter which side of the argument you are on.

‘If you are going to have funders who are getting involved in something that could determine Britain’s future then the public has a right to know who is backing it.’

Millions will heartily agree. Indeed, the public will have been outraged by this week’s revelations of the clandestine dinner at which the billionaire conspired with fellow members of the financial and political elite to launch an anti-Brexit propaganda blitz later this month.

This is the same Mr Soros, remember, who pocketed £1billion by betting against the pound on Black Wednesday, 1992 – which cost British taxpayers billions – thus earning himself the soubriquet ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’.

How distasteful that he now channels his wealth into Remainer bodies such as the All-Party Parliamentary Group on EU Relations and the European Movement.

Last month, after revelations of louche conduct at a fundraising event held by the Presidents Club, charities such as Great Ormond Street Hospital hastened to return their donations.

Will Mr Soros’s Remainer beneficiaries now do the same? Or is a foreigner’s attempt to overthrow the Government less grave than sexist behaviour at a charity dinner?