A loud wake-up call for Brexit hardliners

IF weekend polls are to be believed, the Tory Party faces annihilation at the European elections. Voters are set to unleash a howl of rage at politicians for failing miserably to deliver Brexit. And who could blame them?

The only hope is that the figures serve as a wake-up call to Conservative MPs about the scale of the impending disaster. For in a general election tomorrow, they would be obliterated by Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.

But the signs are not encouraging. Instead of getting a grip, they indulged – again – in an unseemly round of sniping, infighting and leadership peacocking.

The Mail sympathises with the betrayed millions considering a protest vote for Mr Farage. But his true colours surfaced when rattled on TV: sneering and belligerent.

He was unable or unwilling to answer legitimate questions about his beliefs beyond Brexit. Of course, the best way to sideline the threat would be to drag a deal over the line. But that looks unlikely. For good or ill, talks with Labour have stalled. Myopic hardline Brexiteers have resoundingly rejected Theresa May’s pragmatic agreement, which regained control of our money, borders and laws. Their intransigence means the Tories are now haemorrhaging support.

The consequences are too awful to contemplate: The grotesque prospect of a hard-Left government, led by Marxist Jeremy Corbyn, destroying the economy and everything else we hold dear.