Brexit chief Davis refuses to rule out bid to force May to exit No10
DAVID Davis refused to rule out a Tory leadership bid, despite agreeing a contest would be “catastrophic” for Brexit negotiations.
The Brexit Secretary said any bid to oust Theresa May would be “self-indulgent”.
But asked yesterday if he ruled out standing for the leadership himself, he told the QUIZZED David Davis BBC’s Andrew Marr: “No. Look… I’m not going to get into it.” It had been reported that he may join Chancellor Philip Hammond to form a “caretaker” leadership to keep Boris Johnson out. Cabinet Minister Priti Patel has also failed to rule out a bid for No10. A Sunday Times poll gave Mrs May a leadership rating of minus-17%, compared with Jeremy Corbyn on plus-17%. It also put Labour five points clear of the Tories on 46% of the vote.
Archbishop of Canterbury the Rev Justin Welby urged Mrs May to “suck the poison” out of Brexit by setting up a cross-party commission to lead us out of the EU.
MR Davis vowed Brits would not lose free healthcare in Europe offered by EHIC cards after Brexit.
TORY Cabinet Minister Andrea Leadsom’s phoney patriotism is all the hypocrisy of a well-heeled banker waving a cheap plastic Union Jack made in China.
The last refuge of a Brexit extremist is jingoism, and the Leader of the Commons – known as Loaded Loathsome – is demanding broadcasters cheer on national self-harm.
You break it, you own it. So she and other Leave liars should admit they were wrong and fix the EU crisis, instead of hounding the BBC and others to deceive the British public.
The one-time City schemer never satisfactorily answered questions about the use of tax havens to finance property deals and family trusts to potentially avoid inheritance tax.
What may be legal and acceptable to a monied niche is alien to the majority who pay their taxes to fund everything from the NHS and welfare state to firefighters and the police.
True love of your country means contributing fairly to build a decent society, as well as cherishing values of fairness, freedom, decency and tolerance.
Theresa May’s defeated challenger for the Tory crown is on the party’s UKIP wing, which views Brexit as an opportunity to shrink services and create a low-tax Treasure Island for plutocrats and oligarchs.
She isn’t the brightest Tory brain in the Cabinet, wrongly declaring that national debt would stop rising by 2022 at the latest, when the Tory’s target is in fact 2025. Ques- tioning the patriotism of anyone who refuses to agree with her will backfire spectacularly. The public is fed up with finger-pointing by the politicians, and yobs draping themselves in red, white and blue, who accuse their rivals of national disloyalty. Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity in the face of grotesque smears about his patriotism shows a rejection of Leadsom’s divisive form of politics. The Brexit elite – including a Nigel Farage, off earning his fortune abroad – holding their flags and doubting the patriotism of Remainers is crude blameshifting. People won’t fall for it again.
Leadsom’s patriotism appeal is a Union joke