Don’t back Grieve, the Tory turncoat

WHILE being an admirer of the lady, the Mail has often wished the Prime Minister would take a firmer line with the Remoaner obsessives in her ranks who will stop at nothing to frustrate the will of the people.

So we applaud her refusal yesterday to bow to the demands of that Legion d’Honneur-holding, half-French turncoat Dominic Grieve, who insists he does not want to destroy Brexit but who spent Wednesday morning at a secretive meeting with Alastair Campbell, Baroness ‘we must stop Brexit’ Wheatcroft and other diehard Remainers at the European Commission’s London HQ.

Mr Grieve is a man for whom loyalty to his party and country does not come easily.

He is riddled with bitterness that neither David Cameron, who sacked him from his Cabinet, nor Mrs May, who refused to appoint him to hers, recognise his ‘genius’.

This week he has sought to bully the Prime Minister into swallowing a poisonous amendment which – in the event of no deal – could have been used to force a second referendum or block Brexit entirely.

Yesterday she rightly called his bluff, and offered no meaningful concession. MPs will still get a vote – yes or no – but the motion will not be open to Remainer sabotage.

The Bill returns to those dinosaurs in ermine in the House of Lords next week and then back to the Commons for the final showdown in which the very future of Brexit will hang in the balance.

For those would-be saboteurs in the Conservative ranks, the choice is clear. Will they stay loyal to Mrs May, true to the Tory manifesto on which they stood a year ago and to the result of the referendum?

Or will they side with pompous and selfsatisfied Mr Grieve and his sidekick Anna Soubry, who – we learnt this week – thinks the 17.4million Leave voters should be prepared to ‘ suck it up’ and accept free movement?